Gas Pipeline Fire Forces Evacuations in Prague’s Letná District

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Firefighters are responding to a gas pipeline fire in Prague's Letná district on Tuesday afternoon. The fire broke out on Dobrovského Street near the Ministry of the Interior building, and firefighters are evacuating the surrounding area.

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Firefighters are responding to a gas pipeline fire in Prague 7, where flames several meters high are shooting from the ground.

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In Prague on Letná, firefighters intervene near a gas pipeline fire. It broke out in Dobrovsky Street near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the facade of two houses began to burn from the flames. Firefighters declared a second stage alarm, which they subsequently raised to a third. They are evacuating surrounding buildings and streets.

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A gas pipeline fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon near Letenské náměstí. The flames reached the roof level of a three-story house. Firefighters evacuated the area and declared a third-degree fire alarm. The intervention unexpectedly dragged on when the gas could not be stopped. It was only at dusk that the supply was closed and the flames extinguished: before six in the evening.

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The gas fire leaking from a pipeline in Dobrovského Street in Prague 7 was extinguished after about four hours, gas workers stopped the supply, fire department spokesman Miroslav Řezáč told reporters. According to him, firefighters are still measuring gas concentrations on site. To stop the fire, gas workers had to do excavation work, closing the nearest gas connection was not enough. The fire prompted the evacuation of four houses and restricte…