The fire in Warsaw was noticed by passers -by who reported it at 20:05 – informs the capital's branch “Gazeta Wyborcza“The hall belonging to the plastx company was burning. When firefighters arrived, the fire was already crazy, the roof was also partly collapsed. Two employees of the company were suffered in the fire – one of them was taken by an ambulance.
Drama of the Polish Olympian. He lost everything
Plastex was founded by Ryszard Seruga – a former representative Polish in mountain canoeing at the Olympic Games in Munich 1972, world champion in Slalomie from 1979. Kayaks produced by the company are considered one of the best in the world. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney as many as 21 out of 36 medals distributed in canoeing fell prey to athletes using the equipment produced by Plastex. The company has dominated the market for years and the best athletes use its services to this day.
Only now she will have huge problems. The fire consumed almost all the belongings of the company. – The losses are huge, the company practically ceased to exist – Ryszard Seruga said in an interview with Gazeta Wyborcza. – the entire production hall burned down, officeswarehouse content, stored boats ready to leave. Nothing was left outside the brick building with social facilities, all the rest is properly burned to the bare tile … – he calculated.
It is not yet known what the causes of the fire were yet. Ryszard Seruga assured that monitoring records would be analyzed to find out what happened.