The Municipality of Patras, through a press release, described the statements of the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection as shameful, Giannis Kefalogianniswho “comes out and accusing the mayor, Costas Peletidis, of dealing with the fire”, while the fireplaces still “smoke” and the residents are fighting. Instead of apologizing for lack of planning and inadequate means, the municipality said the government was trying to relocate its responsibilities.
In its announcement, the municipality informed the minister that the fire was burning on the city’s urban fabric, stressing that the workers of Xerolakkas, drivers and operators of the municipality, fought bravely and rescued the landfill and industrial area, where the media were non -existent. The municipality added that it was calling for reinforcement from the first moment, but when the flames were approaching the gas station, “everyone was just waiting to rain”. He even asked why they let the workers work while the fire threatened their homes.
“We did not depreciate 112”
The municipality emphasized that it responded to every call of the Fire Department, sending machinery, aquifers and buses for the discharge, while hosting citizens who were left homeless. About the evacuations, the municipality did not question the necessity of 112but he accused the state of degenerate its operation, as it calls on citizens to leave without providing any plan to protect their property. He described the government’s tactic that has made a “flag” dangerous to “run to leave”, while people are helping the trouble of a life lost.
Finally, he stressed that the policy of the government is the one that “burns the people” to save wealth, while closing in by Lundem’s report that “there are lies that were ashamed themselves, since the mouths they were saying were not ashamed” and that the Patriotic people have already judged who they were.