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In the past, during the period from 22 August of this year .06 .30 to 24 August plk t. 06.30, the State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD) received 103 calls – 44 to the fire, including the extinguishment of two forest fires, 42 on rescue works, while 17 calls were mishandled.

Yesterday at .18 .30 VUGD received an invitation to the municipality of Alūksne, where a passenger car engine space of 0.5 m2 was burning. Attempting to extinguish the flames before the arrival of the VUGD a man was jailed by who was handed over to medics of the Emergency Medical Service (NMPD).

Come on. .12 .11 an invitation was received in Rīga, where smoke rose from a multi-storey house apartment window. Instead of the event, a smoke detector had worked in the apartment on the seventh floor of the nine-story building, because it had been ignited by food in the area of 0.1 m2. A man who was handed over to NMPD medics was rescued from the threatened apartment.

VUGD recalls: Take care when preparing and warming food. Don't leave food on the switched stove unattended! Set up smoke detectors in the housing that will weather weather, enabling you to escape from threatened spaces and call fire rescuers by calling 112!

Over the past few days, fire-fighters also rushed to calls where garbage, stubble, five cars, a mains outlet, a hay roll, a roof structure, a hot food, a battery charger, a forest undercover, a farm building with a bath, a dry grass, wiring wires in the apartment burned.

Firefighters lifted a man from an empty kitchen pool in Rēzeknes department yesterday, but on Saturday the help of fire rescuers was needed in Daugavpils, where the man was lost in the forest. When communicating with a lost person on a mobile phone and sending the sound of a tank, the person was found and handed over to State Police officers.

In the county of Valka, on Saturday, the passenger car had crashed and entered the pond, resulting in a 10 m2 oil spill on the surface of the water. Firefighters lifted the car  from the pond and cordoned off an oil spot with absorbent bonbonns.

Prepared by: Prevention and Public Information Division