Fire protection

In an interview with Mega TV, Vasilis Kikilias, Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, spoke about the ongoing fire season, noting that while firefighters are still battling fires, they are also dealing with simultaneous floods.

Active fire protection systems will be installed at the sites and the museums of the Ancient Agora and Kerameikos in Athens as part of the Culture Ministry's program for the holistic promotion of the archaeological sites, budgeted at 6.5 million euros.

Despite the well-established doctrine that "fires are extinguished in winter" - through prevention - its implementation has proven ineffective. Fire protection regulations for property owners turned out to be complex and costly. Municipalities undermined these very regulations, claiming they could neither enforce them nor collect the flammable materials.

Currently, there are no active fires in Bulgaria. However, concerns persist about a fire burning in Greece, which is nearing the Bulgarian border. Chief Commissioner Alexander Zhartov, director of "Fire Safety and Protection of the Population," shared this update on bTV.

Sometimes you do not need technocrats to study a bill to see if it will work. Common sense would have been enough to understand that, in addition to the clearing of the plots by landowners, a provision should also have been made for the collection of the resulting flammable materials. 

A 45-year-old woman succumbed to extensive burn injuries on Monday, a week after being doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire by her husband.

On January 8, after an argument, the 53-year-old husband, who is Roma, set the woman on fire, reportedly in front of two of their children and her brother.

47 reports of fires were received at the National Operations Center. 34 are currently active fires. The situation is under control in most of the places, there are no critical points. Commissioner Nikolay Nikolov, director of the General Directorate "Fire Safety and Protection of the Population", stated this to journalists.

Rompetrol Refinery Director General Felix Crudu-Tesloveanu said on Friday that the fire at Petromidia started at the gasoline hydrofining installation and the ensuing blast generated three more outbreaks, with the probable cause being a cracked pipe. He said that the fire broke out on a platform where there is various industrial equipment and where five people were working.

Signs over the last few months that Athens hotels may be reaching saturation point were confirmed on Thursday as first-quarter data indicated an 6.8 percent decline in occupancy and revenues per available room on an annual basis. The average room rate remained the same as a year earlier.

There is a destroyed warehouse after a fire of the Avanti trade company on Nikola Mushanov Blvd., in the Krasna Polyana district. The fire covered a decare and a half area. According to the Director of the General Directorate "Fire Safety and Protection of the Population" Ch.