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Firefighters: Lightning ignites farm and residential buildings in Kėdainiai district
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Firefighters: Lightning ignites farm and residential buildings in Kėdainiai district

From Delfi · () Lithuanian

Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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News Official statement Outcome reported
  • Lightning struck a wooden farm building in Gudžiūnai, Kėdainiai district, setting the building and a nearby residential house on fire.
  • The farm building's roof, part of its ceiling and 80 square metres of walls burned, along with firewood, straw and household items.
  • Firefighters also found damage to the residential building's wooden roof structures; initial information indicated there was no smoke detector.

A lightning strike set fire to a wooden farm building in Gudžiūnai, in Lithuania's Kėdainiai district, before the flames spread to a nearby residential house.

The Kaunas Fire and Rescue Board received the call at 1:56 p.m. on Tuesday. When firefighters arrived, both buildings were burning in open flames.

The farm building lost its entire roof, part of its ceiling and 80 square metres of walls. Seven cubic metres of firewood, three tonnes of straw and household belongings inside were badly burned.

The flames also damaged the brick residential house, where wooden roof structures were burned, according to initial information. Firefighters doused the rooms with water and cut the electrical wires. They transported water from a natural source 1.5 kilometres away. Initial information indicated that the property did not have a smoke detector.

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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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