A large area burned in Budapest! In pictures, how the flame knights fight the fire
Fires that break out in the open are a constant source of work for disaster management. According to their summary, this year they have been involved in more than 11,500 such cases. The flames broke out mainly in the counties of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Pest, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok.
A large area of dry undergrowth burned in the 18th district of Budapest
They had to vaccinate in several places on Monday as well. Budapest XVIII. dry undergrowth on fire in a large yellow area in its district. The fire also threatened houses and the forest, the M1 News reported.
“The alert level was classified as priority five by the disaster prevention operations service after the arrival and reconnaissance. We have nearly eighty firefighters on the scene. The grade is still five. We attacked the fire from four directions, which also endangered residential buildings from Billentyű Street. Fortunately, my colleagues managed to control the flames, so the fire did not spread to residential buildings“, said firefighter colonel Gábor Zsolt Palotai, deputy director of the Metropolitan Disaster Management Directorate, to M1.
At around 5:00 p.m., the police were already aware that they had extinguished the burning undergrowth in a large area at Gyömrői út in Budapest. According to the official announcement, twenty-seven vehicles and ninety-two firefighters extinguished the fire.
The further spread of the flames has been classified, they are already working on the final extinguishing, they wrote.