By Wednesday morning the firefighters fought to set under control her great fire that broke out in abandoned building in Upper Patisia.

This is the old building of Greek creation, which stopped operating in 1986 and has remained deserted since. Due to the large volume of materials – tires, tires, plastics – located inside the large building, the flames soon took on dimensions and reached threatening three apartment buildings on the “back” (of the building) on ​​Cilicia Street.

Followed scenes of agonyas Three apartment buildings were evacuated With the contribution of ELAS, while firefighting vehicles were “dried” in the parking lots of apartment buildings trying to repel the flames that had reached a few meters away. Within minutes, the surrounding streets were filled by tenants of apartment buildings and neighbors, as well as heavy firefighting vehicles, and even aquifers from Afidnes and the Municipality of Athens.

‘We heard a deafening noise, we went out, shinebecause it has tires, it has old wood, we all went out with the hoses. It is the old -fashioned. It’s the second time he gets fire. We cannot know what can be fire, you can imagine on your own. It is now deliberate. From whom no one knows. They were necessarily evacuated, because we were now in danger‘ He mentioned a resident of one of the apartment buildings evacuated on the camera of the Orange Press.

Residents ‘see’ arson

Another woman noted that “Ten days ago at the same spot it had done again but they caught it”, with the first resident pointing out that “They first burned it from here to the apartment building because they know that it is difficult for the fire brigade to get in, and Now they burned this side when the fire brigade doesn’t come inyou saw it too. “

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Mr. Papadopoulos, and the same resident of the same band, noted that “There is no easy access and this is the arsonists knew that. We saw smoke. Most of us mobilized and tried with tires to throw some foul shots so that we can and do not reach here. So here The fire reached the parking lot. It came, the police immediately evacuated. First, we started ringing bells and immediately evacuated three apartment buildings, as I understood. ” stressing that the efforts of the firefighters were moving.

“The space has been declassified and they probably want to exploit it. Was to become a green space and school buildings » The second resident added, with neighbors fearing that “this problem will probably continue to exist”.

It is noted that in 1999 the weaving building, the blast and the facade of the first factory of the article declared as preserved monuments and is bought by half the land area by the School Building Organization for the construction of school, which has not yet proceeded.