(Updated) Mértola: Fire in the Old Town completely destroys supermarket.


A fire broke out in a supermarket, whose causes will be investigated by the Judicial Police, in Mértola History Center, completely destroyed the business unit, after having been propagated to the other two housing contiguous.

It was also destroyed an adjoining storage room and an annex uninhabited and cover an appliance store. Two people become unemployed, and there is no victims to mourn.

The alert for the fire was given to 14,45 hours when the supermarket Stopper, owned by the young entrepreneur Joseph Stopper, It was still closed to the public. Popular saw smoke coming from the ceiling and warned one of the officials who lives near by and entered the supermarket in with others, equipped with fire extinguishers, but a lot of smoke prevented could fight the blaze.

The Mértola Firefighters quickly rushed to the site but the flames had already assumed major proportions that destroyed completely all the business unit. The collection also contiguous to the supermarket burned, as an attachment in a room that was uninhabited. An appliance store was also affected, having burned part of the building's roof and the damage was caused more fire fighting than by flames.

Heard by LN, President of the Chamber Mértola, Jorge Rosa, who was also on site, He lamented the successful entrepreneur and to the fact that "two people can be unemployed", adding that the city council "will support the entrepreneur, creating a task team to carry out cleaning and provide social support ", concluded.

Second was possible to calculate the property would be protected by insurance, ignoring in particular the damage covering.

The crossing of the Mértola History Center was done by alternative streets already receiving traffic from drivers who come from the Algarve.

In fighting the flames were 44 operational, of Mértola Fire, Beja, Serpa, Ourique and Castro Verde, Municipal Civil Protection and GNR, supported by 26 Car.

Teixeira Correia

(journalist)

Photo: Carlos Viegas


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