VIDEO: Budapest’s Mini Dubai site on fire, 50+ firefighters were dispatched

The fire raged all night from Monday to Tuesday at the railway station in Rákosrendező (the site of the planned giga investment project informally dubbed Mini Dubai), where sleepers caught fire. More than 50 firefighters with 19 vehicles worked in the area. The flames were contained by 2 AM, but were still being extinguished on Tuesday morning. Now, a video of the operation was published by the Budapest Directorate for Disaster Management.

A huge fire raged at the Rákosrendező railway station, on the site of the planned Mini Dubai project, late Monday evening, at Teleki Blanka Street. Railway sleepers caught fire at the site and the spreading flames also threatened a 32-cubic-metre gas tank. Thankfully, the tank was managed to be towed away by MÁV experts before disaster struck, Világgazdaság reports.

Sleepers and undergrowth on fire in Budapest

“The fire affected a 100-meter-long, 20-meter-wide, 5-meter-high sleeper pile and the surrounding undergrowth,” the Budapest Directorate for Disaster Management said in a statement.

Firefighters from the capital’s professional fire brigades, as well as volunteer firefighters from the fire brigades of Rózsadomb and Zugló, and volunteers from the FOKA River Emergency and Special Rescue Association (Folyami Katasztrófavédelem és Speciális Mentő Egyesület), were able to stop the fire from spreading by 2 o’clock in the morning. The statement also revealed that 19 vehicles and more than 50 firefighters were involved in the extinguishing operation.

Even though the firefighters fought the fire all night, on Tuesday morning, there were still spots where the fire was burning. Fortunately, there were no personal injuries.