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Lit in the middle of the night
How 15 minutes Already reported on Wednesday at 3.21 pm In the General Emergency Response Center (BPC), the emergency telephone number 112 received a notification that Barboros Radvilaitės st. 7, an open flame burns the roof of a 3-story house.
When the first fire department arrived, the roof was burning with an already open flame. Fireplace – on the 3rd floor, in the attic. Then the fire spread to the roof structures.
During the fire, the third-floor apartment burned, burned and demolished about 200 square meters. m ceiling, land fused with water and apartments on the first floor. Fortunately, no one was injured.
Merged and museum
The apartments on the second and first floors of the house were merged during the fire fighting. The water also flowed into the Toy Museum, which is also located in this building.
“It just came to our notice then. The good news is that here is the part where our funds are, the bad thing is that it is our funds, technology, newly printed publications and so on. But the exhibition itself has been little touched, at Except for that, it’s good that most of it has been kept orderly, secure. The exhibition was borrowed from us, but on that side everything seems to be fine, “said museum director I. Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė.
They have hit us hard. The good news is that here is the part where our funds are, the bad news is that it is our funds, technology, freshly printed publications and so on. But the exhibition itself has not been touched much.
According to the director, it is difficult to say how much damage the museum has suffered so far, speaking with insurers and experts: “Now it is difficult to name the losses, because it leaks everywhere. All the walls, ceilings … and water in the toys. Of course, we will repair it, but the building itself is really damaged. All the walls are leaking. The whole house merges. We’re downstairs after all, so if we’re wet it’s probably above our highs even more. Most importantly, we are happy that there were no casualties. We received the message around five in the morning, that is, in the middle of the night. Everything could have been “.
Photo by Luke April / 15 minutes / After the fire in the attic flooded the premises of the Toy Museum
“The quarantine failed”
I.Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė did not hide: expect a difficult moment. It will take time to calculate the benefits received before calculating the losses, and for the Toy Museum due to the quarantine, so now is not the best time.
“It just came to our notice then. We still haven’t received any subsidies for the second quarantine. Yesterday we spoke with my husband and I, well, we were quarantined. But today we realized that the quarantine was not the worst problem. It’s scarier when you put multiple things in one place.
Photo by Luke April / 15 minutes / After the fire in the attic flooded the premises of the Toy Museum
I don’t know, everything will work out. To be frank, the hardest part is that we now have no money. Since we have not received any subsidies since December, we are already at that threshold when we start to get upset. When it was the first quarantine, everything went well. We send documents every month. Then it seemed, at least to me, all hopeful, a difficult moment, but let’s get dark. Then after a bit of work he recovered a bit. And the second wave doesn’t seem so happy. We don’t have any income out of nowhere, ”said the director of the Toy Museum.
The quarantine stumbled. We have not yet received any subsidies for the second quarantine.
According to her, maybe it’s easier for state museums because they have budgets, they get that money. And a small private museum has to survive on its own. According to I.Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė, the Employment Service has not paid anything since December. Support from the Ministry of Economy and Innovation is expected, but it is also promised only from March.
“It just came to our attention then. The funds are scary and move, we’ll see what remains of them there. But I live everywhere, it’s better. Everything else will dry up, repair, stain. That’s life, better – worse “, – Indre tries to remain optimistic.
Photo by Luke April / 15 minutes / After the fire in the attic flooded the premises of the Toy Museum
Permission to open alone will not save
He recalled that before the first quarantine, the Toy Museum was going through a true golden age, while laughing, there was a Kaziukas fair every day. I even thought about looking for ways to regulate the flows. So many people came every day. However, no such interest is expected in the near future, even if museums are allowed to function.
According to I.Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė, the work of museums, like the entire field of culture, largely depends on tourism. Both nationals and foreigners. Furthermore, educational activities are only possible if groups, especially students, go on excursions. If they are not available, in a single day in the middle of the school year, the museums will welcome each other, which will mean that the work will not be worth much.
“This is the most difficult: you can cancel that quarantine, but the situation does not change that.” Here is such a complex thing until everything recovers. Like in summer. It may have opened in May, but we didn’t open it, because according to all the requirements in effect at the time, if ten people came in a week, it wouldn’t pay to start work. But everyone is struggling with it, trying to survive, we are no exception, “said I. Jovaišaitė-Blaževičienė.
Photo by Luke April / 15 minutes / After the fire in the attic flooded the premises of the Toy Museum
Currently it is expected that galleries, museums, other exhibitions, library reading rooms may open when 150-200 cases of COVID-19 are detected per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days, and 4-10% of all tests carried out will be positive.
However, even then, other requirements related to group size, number of people coming at the same time, etc. also apply.
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