Fire in the Port of Gdansk

A warehouse hall on the premises of the Port of Gdansk burned down. Initially, more than a dozen deputies of the State Fire Service, the Maritime Search and Rescue Service vessel Captain Poinc, and the WUŻ tugboats went into action to extinguish the fire.

The fire in the toy warehouse at 21 Oliwska Street broke out on Sunday afternoon, 14 July.

– We received the report of the fire at 3:58 p.m. We are still carrying out operations, the situation is not under control. The fire is developing very intensively inside. At the moment more than 20 deputies of the State Fire Service and the Company Rescue Service are working on the scene. I have no information about the injured,” a spokesman for the Gdansk City Fire Brigade informed after 7pm.

As the State Fire Service reported on Platform X, the Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Brigadier Grzegorz Szyszko, went to the scene of the fire together with the operational group. By then, 22 fire engines, a robot, firefighting vessels and tugboats were already on the scene. The fire covered about 400 sq m of the hall area.

– Plastics are on fire, and any plastic burning process carries a risk to health and life. So we have an appeal to the local residents not to exercise outside, as the unfavourable wind direction directs clouds of smoke to the surrounding neighbourhoods,” said a spokesman for the Gdańsk Fire Brigade.

Dense smoke was visible in many parts of Gdansk. The City Crisis Management Centre sent text messages to residents of New Port, Brzeźno, Letnica, and Zaspa recommending that they close their windows.

In the evening, the fire brigade said the work to extinguish the fire would continue until the morning. As reported by the trojmiasto.pl portal, Captain Andrzej Piechowski of the State Fire Service in Gdansk confirmed that only the warehouse had burned down, while the office part of the buildings had been saved.

Source: PortalMorski.pl