Status: 18/08/2023, 21:24 p.m.
By: Marcus Giebel
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Fight against the flames: The emergency services contain the fire with extinguishing water. © Twitter/@xNewsMonitor
A huge fire breaks out at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Emergency services are quickly on site, the public prosecutor's office intervenes.
Novorossiysk – The flames are meters high, the surrounding area is completely shrouded in black smoke. Even from a distance, the menacing scenery pushes itself into the eye of the beholder. Footage of the gigantic fire at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk spread like wildfire this Friday (August 18). The Russian news agency Ria Novosti, citing the Main Directorate of the Emergencies Ministry of the Krasnodar Territory, reported that wooden pallets caught fire at the cargo terminal.
Gigantic fire at Black Sea port: fire on an area of 1300 square meters
At 9.03 a.m. in the morning, the alarm was sounded. When the emergency services arrived on site eight minutes later, the fire raged over an area of 1300 square meters. 42 rescue workers and 14 devices were involved in the extinguishing work. There was no danger that the fire could spread.
It goes on to say that the fire was contained at 10:33 a.m. There were also no explosions in the affected area. "At 10.44 a.m., the open fire was extinguished," the regional head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations is quoted as saying. No one was injured.
The exact background of the fire was not initially known. The responsible public prosecutor's office began to check compliance with fire protection regulations and train traffic at the nearby station. Accordingly, the latter does not belong to the state railway company, whose traffic has not been affected.
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Fire startles Russia: Only recently landing ship hit by drone in seawater port
The city on the northeast coast of the Black Sea is considered an important transshipment point for Russian goods and is used as a naval base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet. At the beginning of the year, at least ten ships are said to have been laid – because an attack was feared at the time? Novorossiysk is located just under 200 kilometers from the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in the Ukraine conflict. This has an overriding value for both countries because of their location and their history.
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It was only at the beginning of August that Novorossiysk came into focus in the wake of the Ukraine war after a Ukrainian sea drone attacked a Russian landing ship in the seawater port. An intelligence spokesman emphasized afterwards: "This will continue." However, as far as is known so far, sea targets were invariably attacked.
Despite everything, the incident is likely to cause unrest in the Black Sea city. (mg)