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Barely out of breath after more than a month after the catastrophic explosion in the port of Beirut on August 4, fires broke out in warehouses in the port’s free zone, creating a double fear that the tragic scene would repeat itself.
A state of panic seized the citizens around the port. Some of them worked quickly to evacuate the buildings surrounding the fire before clouds of smoke choked the capital Beirut and killed its residents and visitors. The concern, once again, of the serious irresponsibility of the State, after the spark of the fire came from barrels of oil stored next to rubber tires, without taking into account the minimum level of public safety.
At approximately 1 a quarter in the afternoon, a large fire broke out in the free zone at the entrance to the port of Beirut, next to the damaged hangars. Fires and smoke rose over the capital, Beirut, as a state of panic and panic prevailed among citizens and passers-by, and some evacuated buildings surrounding the port.
And the Army Command announced, through its Twitter account, that there was a fire in a warehouse for oils and tires in the free market of the Port of Beirut, firefighting operations began and army helicopters will participate in its extinction .
A security source confirmed to Al-Nahar that “the fire broke out in a warehouse in the port’s free zone, and was caused by the ignition of oils and tires, and there is no fear of an explosion.”
The army warned citizens of the need to move away from the vicinity of the port and clear the way due to the intensification of the fire.
Civil defense teams rushed to the port to put out the fire, amid concern over the resumption of the August 4 disaster.
The Civil Defense also brought a crane to work faster in extinguishing the fire in the port, in support of the army’s military helicopters.
The firefighting brigade of the Dahia Municipalities Union participated in the repression, which quickly responded to the call to prevent its escalation in conjunction with the heat wave that is dominating Lebanon.
The “Traffic Control” room asked citizens to facilitate the movement and movement of fire fighting equipment to the port.
Traffic was cut off and it was diverted from Al-Bakrji town to Karantina onto the eastern route, and at the Al-Saifi intersection towards Burj Al-Ghazal. In addition, traffic from the naval base was diverted to the Burj Al Ghazal intersection and the George Haddad intersection.
For his part, the port director, Bassem Qaisi, told Al-Nahar that “the work is now focused on preventing the spread of fire Towards the Charles Helou Bridge.
Waqal: “A business owner placed tires near the oils and this method of placing goods is exceptional.”
He added that “after the August 4 explosion, there may be chaos in the goods storage process due to the need for repair operations.”
As confirmed by the Director General of the Red Cross, Horj Katana Al-Nahar told Al-Nahar that, “Our crews are on alert on the ground and only respiratory distress has been recorded as a result of the fire.”
Likewise, the port director, Bassem Qaisi, confirmed to Al-Nahar that “the success of the army in opening a path for fire trucks inside the fire area began to facilitate the task.” Likewise, the deputy Nazih Najm considered An-Nahar that “various scenarios are being achieved about the fire and the army, and from the assumptions. That the repair shop played a role in his outbreak. “
In turn, the Supreme Defense Council called a meeting at 7 pm in Baabda.
To avoid a new national catastrophe, An-Nahar calls on citizens to facilitate the work of civil defense teams and the army through military helicopters and evacuate the streets around the port of Beirut quickly to work to extinguish the fire quickly and prevent its spread.
و .علن Information Office of the Ministry of Justice the following statement:Immediately after the fire broke out in the port this afternoon, the Minister of Justice of the interim government, Marie Claude Negm, asked the public prosecutor, Judge Ghassan Awaidat, to carry out an immediate and in-depth investigation into the veracity and seriousness of the matter, and direct monitoring and transfer to the port to carry out the necessary procedures to clarify the situation and clarify the reality. Necessary “.
And then, The Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, issued a judgment declaring:
“As a result of our phone call leading to the assignment of the Military Police and Army Intelligence to conduct immediate investigations into the fire that occurred in the port of Beirut on October 9, 2020, we decided to present assignments to all security agencies of the Army Intelligence, Public Security, State Security, Information Division, Customs, Civil Defense and the Beirut Fire Fighting Regiment to carry out the investigations, investigations and investigations necessary to find out the causes of the sudden fire that occurred in the port of Beirut in today’s date, and to inform us personally as soon as possible about the results, due to the seriousness of the situation regarding citizen security and public safety, and a disclosure of all the circumstances and everything related to the damages or lack of the themselves at the crime scene and a statement of all that would illuminate the investigation. on “.
