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How lrytas.lt learned in the Situation Coordination Division of the Fire and Rescue Department on Monday around 7 pm 16 min. a report was received that Gabijos str. cracked wall of a high-rise house.
According to preliminary data, the Maxima store is located on the ground floor of the reported house and the apartments are located upstairs.
All the special services of the city have been dispatched to the site.
Firefighters say the rescuers who arrived inspected the scene and tried to assess the potential danger.
Rescuers later confirmed that they visually see cracks in the walls and floor of the home between the sixth and ninth floors. They are small, but without specialists it is difficult to say what the danger is.
As it is not yet clear how dangerous those cracks are, the decision was made to evacuate all residents of the house. People were asked to spend the night elsewhere. Those with nowhere to go have been searched by the police and the city council is committed to helping the people.
“The residents have been evacuated, experts from the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University are going to the site, who will assess the risks,” the Vilnius city municipality reported on the Facebook social network on Monday night.
Their representatives also say that residents who have nowhere to go will be accommodated in a hotel.
According to the BNS agency, the deputy mayor of the capital Valdas Benkunskas, according to preliminary data, about 100 people were evacuated from the apartment building.
There have been problems in the past
According to preliminary data, the house was built around 2007, so it is quite recent. But the building was in trouble while it was still under construction. As in 2013 he wrote lrytas.lt, 2006 Suddenly, for reconstruction, Gabijos str. the Maxima store in operation at the time.
As announced this time lrytas.ltThe downside began when entrepreneurs began to build an apartment building over the Maxima store. It was only after construction started that people began to worry about whether it would be safe to live in such a house: the apartments were built as if they were on poles.
People’s fears quickly materialized. Before construction was completed, the house began to crumble, the Maxima store was immediately closed, and construction on the apartment building stopped. Its visitors later told reporters that they had seen severely cracked walls inside and that water was coming out through the roof through the rain.
A nine-story building was to be built on the roof of the Maxima. However, when it began to deteriorate, the builders later reduced its height to 7 stories.
Construction stopped suddenly
Only after starting construction, the entrepreneurs successfully sold part of their apartments and offices. However, after a while, the builders informed their clients that they could not guarantee that the multi-story building under construction would be operated safely and offered the clients to terminate the contracts.
In justification, the representatives of the companies assured that they could not continue the construction of departments for technical reasons. The builders quietly began to cancel the contracts with the Vilnius residents who had already booked the apartments.
2006 when journalists visited Gabija Street near said building, he was as dead. The builders pulled out the cranes, the workers were not visible inside the unfinished building.
Brock was called a rumor
The entrepreneurs who built the building called the conversation about a collapsing mall a “buzz level.” Maxima was said to have been shut down because it could not function under construction conditions due to noise and dust.
Employers admitted that some of the walls cracked during construction. But sitting at home is supposed to come naturally.
However, it later became clear that the construction inspectors had demanded that the employers stop construction. This was done by noticing the cracks. The cause of such defects are excessive loads on the structures.
The building was later completed, and the entrepreneurs claimed that there had been no concern about the quality of the building for ten years. The building is constantly maintained as required by law.
“The buildings in the store are separate from the buildings in the house. It has nothing to do with the mall. And the building structures have been improved. After adding additional materials, everything was fixed ”, affirmed this time the businessmen.
