People said they had to try to tackle the fire themselves to protect their homes until firefighters were able to reach the scene and put it out.
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00:00Residents in MaramureÈ™, in northern Romania, have been surveying the damage after a massive
00:07fire in the area was extinguished. Six warehouses have been reduced to ashes and entire orchards
00:14have been destroyed in the blaze that broke out on Saturday. Locals said the fire started
00:19suddenly and quickly intensified before spreading to houses.
00:24I was scared. I called 112 and they started asking me how many metres the fire was from.
00:30I said 30 metres.
00:32The Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Saturday that 90 people had been evacuated from the
00:37area. People said they had tried to tackle the fire themselves to protect their homes
00:42until firefighters were able to reach the scene and put it out.
00:47With shovels and everything else we could do, with water pumps and everything we had here,
00:52we managed to put it out so that it wouldn't come back here.
00:56Luckily there was a fire extinguisher here, because if there was a fire, we would have burned.
01:00More than 250 firefighters from MaramureÈ™ and neighbouring counties were mobilised to
01:06extinguish the fire. The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations believed the fire
01:11started on an area of dry vegetation and quickly got out of control. But authorities
01:16don't yet know how it started and have opened an investigation to determine the cause.