The prosecutor’s office found that the source of the August fire in an apartment on Kraszewskiego Street in Poznań was in the premises of a company that provides battery services. During the firefighting operation, two explosions occurred. Two firefighters were killed and dozens of others were injured.
We wrote about the fire that happened on the night of August 24-25 many times on tvn24.pl. An explosion occurred while extinguishing a fire in an apartment on Kraszhevsky Street. Two firefighters were killed and eleven others were injured. Three civilians were also injured. The spokesman of the Poznan District Prosecutor’s Office, Prosecutor Łukasz Wawrzyniak, said on Monday that based on the preliminary findings of an expert investigating the cause of the fire, the source of the fire was in the basement where a local company was storing. service batteries. The prosecutor added that more than three tons of various lithium-ion batteries were confiscated at the site of the fire. – In the middle of the next year, a comprehensive report on the causes of this fire will be prepared – said the prosecutor Wawrzyniak.
READ ALSO: The moment of the explosion of an apartment in Poznan on record
They recreate the course of the fire in August
Prosecutor Łukasz Wawrzyniak added that investigators have commissioned scientists from the Poznan University of Technology to prepare an expert opinion that will present the course of the August fire, thanks to the use of computer simulations. In turn, the Warsaw Fire Academy should make a decision about the rescue operation.
Court officials entered the basement of the destroyed apartment of TVN24
The prosecutor noted that witnesses and victims in this case will be interrogated and will explain the amount of financial damage. – They also talked with the owners of the battery service. They claimed that everything was done correctly by them, said the spokesperson of the prosecutor’s office. In early December, the prosecutor’s office announced that the cause of death of both firefighters was “massive thermal injuries as a result of the fire.” According to the announcement, expert opinions should be prepared in the middle of next year.
READ ALSO: Arrangement of the apartment is over. “Ground zero” has been reduced again
They were going for “regular smoke”.
On the night of August 24-25, the fire service was called to the basement. Residents began to evacuate even before they arrived. Five minutes after the call, firefighters were already on the scene. While searching the basement where they were looking for the source of the fire, there were two explosions, after which the fire quickly spread.
Fire and explosion in an apartment in Poznań
Shortly after the tragedy, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Wislaw Leshniakiewicz, said that “the force of the explosion was so great that the firefighters’ helmets were torn off their heads.” At the peak of the firefighting operation, about 100 firefighters and about 30 fire trucks were working at the scene.
An investigation has been launched into the fire. At the beginning of September, the demolition of the burnt apartment began.
The fireman died in a construction accident. Lukasz Wlodarczyk and fire department Patrick Michalski KW PSP Poznań
Main photo source: Kontakt24
