Bar Buritis that suffered a fire receives solidarity from customers – General



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Washington Grenfell next to what remains of the Sap Hut
Washington Grenfell next to what remains of the Sap Hut (photo: Gladyston Rodrigues / EM / DA Press)

“Yesterday I was sure that God exists; today, that there are good souls in this world ”, said on Sunday (4) the businessman Washington Grenfell, owner of Prainha Botequim, bar no Buritis, Western Zone of Belo Horizonte.

On Saturday night (3) the establishment, on Rua Moiss Kalil, was hit by a Inception of great propores which took over the forests around him.

Throughout this Sunday Grenfell received calls from customers who rushed out of the bar because of the fire. So much for this, there was no way pay the bill. “Several called saying that they would arrange with us,” he said.

Prainha integrates a entertainment complex in Buritis, which has two bars and one court. At night the fire that dominated the neighboring forest came to the place. “Around 9 at night, when we started to have the ‘sleeping drink’, the fire in the forest, due to the wind, began to increase. We were afraid that it would come near the bar and we opened the doors and asked people to leave, ”he said.

This Sunday (4) there was still smoke
This Sunday (4) there was still smoke in the forest next to the bar (photo: Gladyston Rodrigues / EM / DA Press)

At that time, he assures that there were about 150 people in the place. The establishment suffered little from the fire. Knows kiosk they were burned. At 9:06 pm on Saturday, contact was made with the Fire brigade. But the service only started at 12:30 a.m., according to the corporation’s report, because there were no vehicles available: firefighters were working on fires in Serra do Rola Moa.

“It was the people who put out the fire in the sap,” Grenfell continues. Firefighters worked until 5:50 am Sunday in the region’s forest.

The entrepreneur has not yet measured prejudicesbut believe that we will be small. As the light only returned to work this Sunday afternoon, he could not reopen the place, but the field was already in use. In this second (5) Prainha reopens normally, even for lunch.

Prainha Botequim, in Buritis, reopens this Monday (5) (photo: Gladyston Rodrigues / EM / DA Press)
Prainha Botequim, in Buritis, reopens this Monday (5) (photo: Gladyston Rodrigues / EM / DA Press)

Grenfell inaugurated Prainha Botequim, which already served as a space for other bars of its kind, during the pandemic – first for delivery and five weeks in person. “Because of the way the fire was in the forest, he was very afraid of hitting us,” said the businessman, relieved, at the incident.

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