On Friday, criminal investigators and dog handlers also intervened on the spot, and a structural engineer was present again. He was to evaluate the apartments that were directly affected by the explosion and in which there was a fire. The owners got their apartments back in the evening. But of course they are uninhabitable, so they could only look into them and find out what the damage is.
They will then start removing debris and damaged furniture at the beginning of next week. One of them confided in TV Nova reporters how he endured the desperate situation. “I would like to thank my girlfriend, who came to me from afar to help me,” he said in tears.
Everything that Mr. Svoboda had left after the explosion in the next apartment will fit into a single plastic bag. Here, too, the neighbors had to lend to him. “I only have basic things, a T-shirt, they handed out water, so I got water, a T-shirt and pants,” TV Nova described all his current assets.
“I lost my basic necessities, clothes, furniture, books, some paintings, drawings,” Mr. Svoboda confided. He lost everything. Something as banal as a visit to the toilet saved his life.
“It saved my life that I was in the bathroom and that the bathroom actually worked as a small cover,” he told reporters. Mr. Svoboda is a painter, he was to present his paintings next week at an exhibition, which he decided to organize despite all this.
He was in the toilet during the explosion of the apartment, which saved his life. Video HERE:
“There will also be charred paintings that will be exhibited. As such a memory,” Mr. Svoboda explained. The explosion most damaged the apartments on the third floor, but there is also damage in the surrounding apartments or on the facade of the house.
“There is damage in the millions, it really demolished 3 apartments and it damaged the house a lot, which means that the damage will be very high,” said the mayor of Prague 7 Jan Čižinský.
For cases like these, Prague 7 has set up an account to which people can send money to help those affected by similar tragedies. “We will use all the help either for these people or for other people who are in a similar situation,” says Čižinský.
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