Davos, alarm lifted: “Fire put out” | EUROtoday

Listen to the audio model of the article

The small hearth broke out not removed from the conference heart the place the World Economic Forum is being held. “The alarm has completely disappeared and the fire has been completely put out after having evacuated, as a precaution, part of the conference centre”. This is what the native firefighters advised ANSA.

According to what was reported by the Italian journalist Lilli Gruber, who on the time of the evacuation was reside from the Swiss metropolis for Otto e mezzo on la7 and who needed to proceed broadcasting on the phone, the evacuation was attributable to the fireplace in a picket home close to the lodge that homes the convention centre, with none accidents.

“We are outside the Congress Center, they evacuated us all. We left all our things inside because there seems to be a fire in a hotel nearby. There are helicopters flying above our heads, it is full of firefighters and therefore there is an evacuation emergency”, stated Lilli Gruber, by phone from Davos. According to an preliminary reconstruction by the Swiss press, a small picket chalet positioned close to the Turmhotel Victoria caught hearth.

Gruber leads by cellphone from Davos, “luckily there are no injuries”

“Fortunately there are no injuries. Security is at very high levels, also because the powerful of the Earth are here. Imagine the chaos around in the streets of Davos. I thank the availability of the guests of this sui generis episode: see you on Monday at Eight and a Half, I will be there regularly”. Lilli Gruber thus concluded, reside from Davos, the episode of her in-depth program which she performed by phone from the Swiss metropolis, which hosts the World Economic Forum. In the studio there have been Marco Travaglio, Franco Bernabè and Lina Palmerini. “In any case, Lilli Gruber, La7 and Otto e Mezzo never stop,” community director Andrea Salerno commented on X. Many on social media appreciated the professionalism of the journalist who continued to host the episode on the phone.