Tag: fire
Macedonia 26.02.21 | 12:50

Macedonian diplomatic car torched in Solun

A diplomatic car used by the Macedonian consulate in Solun (Thessaloniki) was torched overnight. Greek media outlets are reporting that the car was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire. Firefighters were summoned around 5:30 in the morning. Greek nationalists frequently target Macedonian owned...
Macedonia 24.02.21 | 09:07

Official car used by the director of the Albanian language agency torched near Skopje

An official vehicle owned by the newly established agency for the use of the Albanian language was torched in Vizbegovo, north of Skopje. The agency director Ilber Sela apparently took the official car home with him, and it was burnt down overnight. The fire was reported at 3:40 in the morning. The agency...
Macedonia 16.02.21 | 18:26

Elderly woman died in a fire near Tetovo

An elderly woman from the village of Zilce near Tetovo died in a fire this morning. Macedonia is hit by a cold wave and it’s possible this contributed to the tragic accident. The fire was reported by the son of the victim. Tetovo firefighters put it out but were too late to save the 80 year old...
Macedonia 08.01.21 | 17:10

Global shop-keepers divided into categories based on the damage they sustained from the fire

Shop-keepers in the burnt Global mall in Strumica have been divided into three categories, and will press their claims for reimbursement. The categories involve businesses who suffered total loss, partial loss, or no loss at all. The ground floor of the large mall developed under controversial circumstances...
Macedonia 08.01.21 | 15:11

Silence about responsibility for Global fire is complicity in future similar fire with human casualties

For a whole week there has been no word from the competent institutions about the fire in “Global” in Strumica, the spokesperson of VMRO-DPMNE Naum Stoilkovski reminded at Friday’s press conference adding that there is no information about the cause of the fire, and even worse, there...
Macedonia 06.01.21 | 20:03

Police lashes out against Christmas celebrations, ignores violations by Government supporters

While the police arrested a dozen citizens of the village of Orman near Skopje for honoring the traditions and lighting a Badnik fire to celebrate the coming of Christmas, a crony of the Zaev regime live-streamed a brass band party in his home. Еве како по ковид правила слави...
Economy 05.01.21 | 09:34

The companies that Zaev personally knows to “show solidarity” and return the money to the victims of the Eurostandard “fire”

The Association of damaged depositors from Eurostandard Bank welcomes the initiative of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to help the store owners of the charred part of the “Global” shopping mall, but remind that the “fire” that occurred in Eurostandard Bank was a thousand times bigger...
Macedonia 03.01.21 | 19:40

Never mind the sprinklers, the Strumica mall didn’t even have functioning water hydrants

TV Vis from Strumica reports that the Global shopping mall did not have operational water hydrants that could’ve helped the firemen save some of the dozens of stores that were burnt in yesterday’s inferno. The mall, whose construction was notorious as part of Zoran Zaev’s early, 2008...
Macedonia 03.01.21 | 09:07

Major fire in the Global shopping mall in Strumica

A major fire broke out yesterday evening in the Global shopping mall in Strumica. There are no casualties but serious damage was inflicted on the shops. The fire started on the ground floor and then spread upwards. At least ten stores were burnt down, as well as much of the marketplace. Mayor Kosta...
Macedonia 09.09.20 | 10:12

Fire breaks out in Secretariat for European Affairs’ offices

Firefighters are on a scene of a fire after breaking out in a building in Skopje downtown. The former premises of Komercijalna Banka are now used by several state institutions. The fire was located on the first floor, where the offices of the State Environment Inspectorate are. The whole building, which...
Macedonia 05.09.20 | 20:41

Skopje: Man shot at person he suspected of torching his two cars

A man from Skopje’s Gazi Baba district fired a bullet at a man who set fire on his two vehicles overnight. The incident happened at 4 in the morning when a family realized that their two cars, a Volkswagen Python and a Volkswagen Touareg are on fire. The father of the family, 54 year old S.F.,...
Macedonia 04.09.20 | 16:37

Bus burns down on the Skopje – Stip higway

A bus operated by the Kit-Go company from Stip completely burnt down today on the Stip – Skopje highway. Local authorities say that the driver was alone in the bus when the fire started. He attempted to use the extinguisher but was not able to contain the blaze. Eventually, a firefighting team...
Macedonia 28.08.20 | 14:05

Owner of four trucks that were set on fire in Skopje says he was deliberately targeted

Duplek Naser, the owner of a trucking company which had four of its trucks set on fire in Skopje severak days ago, says that he was targeted by arsonists. Naser says that security cameras filmed three men douse the trucks and set them on fire where they were parked in Skopje’s Butel district. “The...
Macedonia 17.08.20 | 10:18

Homeless shelter burns down, no injuries reported

A barrack used to house homeless people in the Cicino Selo center near Skopje burnt down overnight. Fortunately no-one was inside when the incident happened. It took a large crew of firefighters with six vehicles to douse out the flames. The fire was reported around midnight but was only out in the early...
Macedonia 14.08.20 | 10:36

Two EVN vehicles torched in Tetovo

Two vehicles owned by the energy distribution company EVN were set on fire yesterday in Tetovo. The incident comes shortly after electricity prices were hiked by steep 7.4 percent. This sparked a protest in Tetovo, where the Austrian owned EVN has faced resistance when trying to collect on unpaid bills. Meanwhile,...
Macedonia 07.08.20 | 20:08

Two cars burn down in Karpos

Two cars were set on fire in Skopje’s Karpos district overnight. The incident was reported shortly after midnight, and the worst affected was a Skoda car. The fire spread to a part of a facade of a near-by building, as well as to a Volkswagen Passat that was parked close by. There is still no indication...
Macedonia 04.08.20 | 20:34

Police urged to act after a man set fire in a dry forest and bragged about it on TikTok

Citizens are urging the police to go after a TikTok user who posted a video in which he is setting fire in a dried out forest. The user @djeloking2020 posted the video in which he sets fire to a small spruce tree which immediately goes in flames in the dry weather, and the embers spread around it. When...
World 19.07.20 | 12:08

Arson may be the cause of fire in Nantes cathedral

The fire that broke out in Nantes Cathedral on Saturday morning, could have been a case of arson, the V4 news agency reports. Before being put out by the firefighters, videos uploaded to the internet showed the fire inside the church raging with huge flames. The fire department was called by the locals...
World 18.07.20 | 12:03

Fire in the Nantes cathedral

Firefighters in the French city of Nantes were able to put under control the fire that erupted in the centuries old gothic cathedral in the city. The fire was reported in the early morning hours. The cathedral dates from 1434, and was being built up over the centuries. The incident reminded the public...
Macedonia 01.06.20 | 11:29

Doctors can’t issue medicine prescriptions after fire in the public healthcare fund’s computer room

The FZOM public healthcare fund announced that doctors will not be issuing medicine prescriptions today. Republika has learnt that the reason is a fire that broke out in the FZOM server room. The incident happened on Sunday evening and the server is now off-line. The damage affected both national and...
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