Last day, during the period from 20 August of this year .06 .30 to 21 August . 06.30, the National Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD) received 51 calls – 19 to fire extinguishment, 17 to rescue jobs, while 15 calls were deluded.
Yesterday at .22 .20 VUGD received a call in Riga, where smoke peaked in a multi-apartment residential house. Upon arrival at the scene, wiring cables and household appliances in 1 m2 were found to be burning in the three-story building's landing area, a strong interception, while man on one of the floors of the building calls for help. . Firefighters rescued the man by leaving the threatened building with a rescue mask and handed over to the medical services mediator. Before the arrival of VUGD, residents had begun to extinguish flames with a fire extinguisher and eight people had evacuated from the building. . .At the 23.50 fire was eliminated.
VUGD recalls that extinguishing a fire with a fire extinguisher can be done if extinguishing does not pose a threat to life and health! Call 112 immediately when you notice the fire accident and call the firefighters rescuers!
During the last day, fire-fighters also rushed to calls, where garbage burned, soot in a flue, wood, summer kitchen, in four cases food, dry grass, household, cereal stubble, light car, pallets, electricity switchboard, wall, fire left unattended on the stove.
By helping animals in a helpless state, fire rescuers in Ogre yesterday released a cat trapped in an open window, lifted a horse collapsed in the Babīte municipality into a pit and handed it over to the master, while in Rēzekne the building captured a snake that had entered a public building and released it freely outside the populated area.