Wood warehouse burns in Drenova/ Residents: We have no money to replace them

2024-08-03 18:09:00, Kronika CNA

This Saturday afternoon, a warehouse with wood for heating, in the village of Drenovë in Korça, was engulfed in flames.

As CNA reported, the fire was started to burn weeds, but the flames took on huge proportions and engulfed the warehouse.

This situation has worried the residents, who told CNA that they do not have money to build a new warehouse, or even to replace the burnt wood.

"We were lying at home when a neighbor came to us and told us that there was a fire from the hut where we have the wood, when we went outside the flame was in the sky, we got the wood with debt. Where to find more wood, our huts were burned. There must have been someone who set the fire but we didn't see it because we live far from the huts. I had 10 meters of wood, tomorrow will be a week since I got them. We only have 1 pension, where do we get this income to build the hut and get wood.

The warehouse in Drenova is engulfed in flames/ flats are at risk
August 3, 5:08 p.m

We do not know who put it that there was straw behind the huts. Close to the buildings were the huts, there was a risk of burning down the buildings, as well as the narrow road that needs to be widened because there is no way for the fire brigade. The firefighters did a good job, with sacrifices they entered and managed to put out the fire, my wood is still burning, they discovered my roof and are putting it out. How do we get the wood? Now only the state should think about us, the municipality, the municipality. That we don't have, we have collected those money like a pus wound. We saved our mouths for those wood", said a resident.

Meanwhile, another resident said that when the flames got big, it was difficult to intervene, since they had no water.

"We have to help each other, what can we do. Look how we got burned. We went to help, but we didn't even have water to go out with hoses and put out the fire. Even today he found it with a defect in the water that broke our pipes. My apartment was close to the fire, but thankfully, the fire brigade came quickly. As soon as we announced it, it came. Some of us, some of them, and until now, as you can see, we managed to put out the fire", the resident underlined./ CNA