“It was like a bomb dropped, the lights went out. We heard windows being broken. Two TVs burned in my house. “It was something shocking,” said a resident of the apartment building.
The residents of an apartment building in eastern Thessaloniki experienced terror when a lightning struck the building, causing a fire to break out. Fortunately, there were no casualties. “It was like a bomb fell,” said a resident of the apartment building.
The incident occurred shortly before midnight on Friday, June 17, during the heavy rain that hit Thessaloniki.
According to information from Thestival, around 23:45 one of the many thunderstorms that lit up the city sky ended up in a seven-storey apartment building in the area of ​​Depo, on Anastasiou Bakalbasi Street. The occupants were terrified by the deafening noise. Windows in the apartments of the apartment building were broken and at the same time darkness prevailed.
They soon realized that it was lightning that “hit” their apartment building. Immediately after, they realized that a fire broke out on the roof and in the stairwell. The Fire Brigade was notified. Five firefighters rushed to the scene, with two water trucks.
The high electrical load destroyed electrical appliances in several apartments. “It was like a bomb dropped, the lights went out. We heard windows being broken. Two TVs burned in my house. It was shocking “ stresses speaking at thestival tenant of the apartment building.
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