“As always, the fireworks were really nice and of course we wouldn’t have done it if there had been any danger,” emphasized the capital’s mayor Lydie Polfer (DP) on Wednesday morning at the so-called “City Breakfast”. At the monthly meeting with the press, she looked back on the national holiday and the evening before.
According to media reports, it should After the fireworks on Monday evening there was a small fire under the “Pont Adolphe” from where the rockets were fired. Lydie Polfer confirmed on Wednesday that the fireworks sparked flames. However, she didn’t want to talk about a fire. “It was more than mini, the people on site were able to kick the flames out with their feet.”
Different representations
The fire department described the incident a little differently on Wednesday morning: When asked, the press office of the “Corps grand-ducal d’incendie et de secours” spoke of a “small vegetation fire under the bridge from which the fireworks were set off.” This developed during the fireworks display. “Immediately after the end of the spectacle, our teams used a vehicle to clear a 20 square meter area of a meadow.”
When assessing the risk of vegetation fires, the CGDIS relies on various models. “From six levels, we were at ‘moderate’ (level two out of six) on the 22nd. That doesn’t mean that there can’t be a fire, but that the spread is limited or slower,” said Cédric Gantzer, department head of the general directorate of the fire department, on Wednesday.
In a conversation before the celebrations he had last week compared to the daily newspaper explainedthat the responsibility and ultimately the decision about lighting the fireworks lies with the city of Luxembourg as the organizer. Against the background of a heat warning in force and the increased risk of vegetation fires, he said that while high temperatures were playing a role, vegetation was still green and no wind was forecast.
