Between September 6 and September 9 morning, the State Fire Service received 187 calls - 68 for fire-fighting, including three for forest fires, 61 for rescue work, and 58 were not emergencies.
On Saturday, a deceased person was found in a pond in Nīkrāce parish, Kuldīga municipality, and handed over to the State Police, while on Sunday, two deceased persons were rescued from water bodies in Latgale - in Kaunata parish, Rezekne municipality, and in Zvirgzdene parish, Ludza municipality.
At 05:22 on Sunday firefighters went to Limbaži municipality, where a wood shed of 2 m2, firewood of 3 m2, and a bonfire of 1 m2 were on fire. Before the arrival of the firefighters, a man had fled from the burning shed but had already died when the firefighters arrived.
Sunday at 17:01 VUGD received a call to Ventspils municipality, where a two-storey dwelling house with an area of 250 m2 was on fire. A person died in the fire. At 21:58 the fire was eliminated.
At 18:06 fire rescuers received a call to Riga, where an apartment of 40 m2 was on fire on the ground floor of a one-storey residential house. Searching the apartment, firefighters found a deceased person. Three people were evacuated from the building before the arrival of the VUGD. At 20:52 the fire was extinguished.
