On Christmas Eve, a total of 150 emergency calls were made to help in the event of a disaster.

During the day of December 24, the firefighters were alerted mainly about technical rescues, but Christmas Eve in Mezőtúr, Badacsonytördemic, Miskolc and Debrecen also “became a devastating fire”, they say in a summary published by the management side of disasters.

According to the information, on Thursday, December 24, a total of 150 emergency calls for help were received. Firefighters had to intervene in 35 fires and 66 technical rescues were carried out. To the operations control centers

45 false signals and 3 deliberately misleading were also received.

It is detailed that during the day two people lost their lives on the roads: in the afternoon a minibus and a car crashed at kilometer 47 of the M0 motorway, and a few hours later a car fell into a ditch on the border of Beremend in the region of Baranya. Professional firefighters from Budapest and Siklós and volunteer firefighters from Beremend intervened in the cases.

On Christmas Eve flames broke out in several apartments.

In Mezőtúr, a family house and its outbuilding caught fire, and then the roof structure of a building with an area of ​​150 square meters was lit with candles in Badacsonytördemicen, Veszprém county. A family house was also burning in the Nagy Király vineyard in the suburbs of Miskolc. A family home burned down in Tárnok due to an Advent wreath, and on Friday morning one of the eighth-floor apartments of one of the multi-story condominiums at Füredi út in Debrecen burned down in its entirety, and firefighters saved two people from the flames.

“Most home fires are caused by candles, so we don’t leave the candles burning alone for a single minute, and we even disconnect the power cord at night,” warns the disaster management side. The statement adds that “when preparing and reheating the festive menu, do not forget the delicacies on the stove because they also lead to the fire.”

Even at Christmas, there are 2,000 firefighters on duty and nearly 500 vehicles on standby, they wrote.


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