2024-04-09 07:30:44
The window of the car parked on the side of the road was broken. Cardboard that has started to smoke is extinguished with water. Two unexploded gas cylinders were found at the scene, the Kaunas Fire Rescue Board reported.
ELTA reminds that a man born in 1951 was pulled out from under the rubble, he was conscious. According to preliminary data, there were no other persons in the house at the time of the explosion.
Džiuginta Vaitkevičienė, representative of the Kaunas Fire Rescue Board, told Eltai that not only a person was pulled out, but also a dog.
“The dog was taken by the police officers, the animal protection service could not come because they did not have a vehicle, so the police officers took the animal, they will take it somewhere,” said the representative of the fire department. She said that there was no fire at the accident site.
As indicated by the Fire Protection and Rescue Department (PAGD), the report about the collapsed house on Kaštonų street in Garliava was received on Monday around 3:30 p.m.
As PAGD representative Edita Zdanevičienė told Eltai, the house completely collapsed after the explosion, and a person was searched for in the ruins. 3:56 p.m. a person was pulled out from under the rubble with hydraulic rescue equipment.
Firefighters finished work at the scene around 7:30 p.m.
2024-04-09 07:30:44