Fire In Yerevan
A fire occured in the Kond suburb of Yerevan today. According to official reports 5 houses are completely destroyed, and 2 have their roof destroyed. The state tv H1, showed pictures of professional firemen putting out the fire, whilst Yerkir Media’s new online news service shows a completely different story:
Residents putting out the fire themselves with fire hoses, and half way through, the water running out. There was inadequate pressure in the fire hydrant,and no water supply in the suburb at the time. Pictures show people filling buckets with water, and apparently it took the one fire engine a very long time to arrive.
It makes me wonder, what if something worse happend in Yerevan? If there was not even water to put out a residential fire, what on earth would happen if anything worse occured. It is truly shocking that residents were having to struggle with no water whilst watching their houses burn. It is very, very sad.
Watch the Yerkir tv Report. HERE about half way through you can see the water run out.
Fire in Kond
Kond, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Hetq Online 2006
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