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The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) announced that the explosions at the LPG station in Crevedia, Dambovita county, ended up in 58 injured, of whom one dead, Agerpres reports.
The first eight victims were after the first explosion, of which one person died from a heart attack, without burns, and seven injured people (3 with burns transported to the Bucharest Floreasca Emergency Clinical Hospital, 4 with burns transported to the Bagdasar-Arseni Hospital), specify the representatives of the MAI, on Sunday morning, in a press release.
Out of the total number of victims, 43 are MAI employees (39 firefighters, 2 policemen and 2 gendarmes).
At around 2:00, 54 people were hospitalized in various sections of the health units, 10 of them being intubated.
Once the Red Intervention Plan was activated, a plan which requires the addition of operative crews, including medical ones, the following intervention forces were mobilized to the scene:
- ISU DB: 6 fire trucks, 1 truck for transporting multiple victims, 11 SMURD ambulances, 2 advanced medical points.
- ISU BIF - 14 fire trucks, 1 robot truck, 1 powder and nitrogen fire truck, 1 ladder truck, 2 advanced medical points, 7 SMURD ambulances, 4 SMURD ambulances with a doctor, 1 CBRN crew, 1 mobile command point , 1 extrication unit.
- ISU PH - 3 fire trucks.
To the above-mentioned added a SMURD helicopter, nine Dambovita SAJ crews, 29 policemen, 30 gendarmes.
"At the same time, for the protection of citizens, a safety perimeter was established at a distance of approximately 800 meters from the site of the intervention and approximately 3,000 residents were evacuated as a precaution. Also, in the vicinity of the area, a message of warning through the RO-ALERT system," says the MAI.
At the level of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the presence of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Catalin Predoiu, a crisis cell was established, which also brought together representatives of the Ministry of Health.
"Besides the operational aspects intended for the optimal management of this complex situation, two TELVERDE lines were also operationalized, where the relatives of the victims of the explosion in Dambovita County could find out information about the condition of those affected by this unfortunate event. Following this event, the European Mechanism of Civil Protection was activated, with the aim of carrying out, in an emergency regime, the transfer of heavily affected patients, for the provision of medical care that is required for the major burns. Thus, the first patients will be transferred with an aircraft equipped with the MApN to a health unit in Brussels, following so that during the day others can be transferred, in order to carry out specialized medical interventions," add the representatives of the MAI.
Legend: ISU = Inspectorate for Emergency Situations; ISU BIF = Inspectorate for Emergency Situations of Bucharest and Ilfov County; SMURD = Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and Extrication; CBRN = Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear; PH = Prahova County; DB = Dambovita County.
