“In 1999, we had 3 fellow firefighters die at the height of the Burnt Vourla in the Athens-Lamia E.O… the Bleve phenomenon occurred, the most dangerous thing in a firefighter’s professional life”
The Greek Police was immediately informed of the incident of the burning tanker he explained to SKAI and the newsroom show the representative of the fire department Ioannis Baker.
As mentioned by Mr. Baker, “a burning tanker with 7.2 tons of liquefied gas is the most explosive there is… In 1999 we had an accident with three fellow firefighters dead at the height of Kameni Vourla on the Athens-Lamia National Highway after a traffic accident. The Bleve phenomenon occurred, the most dangerous thing in a firefighter’s professional life, overpressure was applied to the walls of the tanker and there was a very large explosion, the shock wave sent the wreckage of the tanker about 1 kilometer away.”
“There is no way that a police officer would not be aware of the incident, because at the National Coordination Center for Crisis Management (ESKEDIK) at the same time when an incident breaks out we have immediate operational information, at the level of the National Coordination Center for Crisis Management. There is no way he won’t become a connoisseur, any employee inside ESKEDIK is a party to the information. All the agencies involved were informed immediately from the moment we became aware of the dangerous incident” underlined Mr. Baker.
Regarding the inconvenience and the queues of kilometers from passengers, the fire official noted, among other things, that from the moment the incident occurred, he found a lot of people on the National Highway, several excursionists who were either leaving Athens, or returning to Athens, thousands of people . “You can’t stop the traffic at the same time that the incident breaks out,” he stressed, while mentioning that many excursionists they did not listen to the instructions of the authorities to turn around.
Balaskas to SKAI: ELAS did not know that there was this “bomb” in the middle of the national team
“Many citizens really sufferedclearly there was an oligopoly, and the oligopoly was caused to the best of my knowledge by my own information because the information was not immediately known to ELAS that the barrel contained what it contained,” the Greek Police unionist told SKAI and the Morning News earlier Stavros Balaskas.
“The fact that once the information was available we should not have allowed citizens to enter the national highway, so that there would not be a problem with queues, it was wrongbut the first information that went to ELAS was not known that there was this “bomb” in the middle of the highway” explained the trade unionist.
“We must not forget that 20 years ago, the same tanker somewhere in Kamena Vourla exploded when they were approached by firefighters whom it eliminatedhe excommunicated them, and indeed on the camera of television crews” said Mr. Balaskas.
So, he continued, there was the anticipation that in about an houry will be transfused and removed (the tanker). When we learned as ELAS that there is this issue, it changed (the actinization).
“Let’s praise the traffic police, the colleagues who passed car after car in the traffic jam and handed out ice water, and many citizens, unfortunately, they refused to turn around and waited too many hours and suffered” Mr. Balaskas also noted.
Source: Skai
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