January 1, 2022 - Across Croatia, the skies lit up with fireworks to bid farewell to 2021 and welcome in 2022. Unfortunately, not everyone was able to join in the celebrations, such as the Split firefighters, who received multiple reports and calls throughout the night.

On the last day of 2021 and the first hours of the new year, Split firefighters and their colleagues from the surrounding cities extinguished fires caused by pyrotechnics, reports Index.hr. Most fires were on garbage containers. Fortunately, no one was injured and there wasn't any greater material damage recorded.

Members of the Public Fire Brigade (JVP) of the city of Split had to put out a garbage fire in a metal container on Put Mostina at 19:19, while a plastic container was burning in Grabova Street at 23:12, so this required their intervention.

Ten minutes later they had to put out the grass fire in Domovinskog rata avenue, where about ten square meters burned, and only three minutes before the arrival of the new year they were called to Odeska Street, where a plastic box fire broke out on the balcony of an apartment. 

JVP also extinguished a garbage fire in a container in Velebitska street. Then, at 1:00, they had to put out a garbage fire in the stone bin in Marmontova, and 13 minutes later they extinguished the fire of a plastic container in Ljubićeva. Garbage was also burning in Burgenland at 1:37, as well as a waste container in Doverska Street at 3:33, and before 5:53 in the morning they had to go to the field in Ljubićeva again, where garbage was burning once more.

Their colleagues from the Voluntary Fire Brigade (DVD) Split also had work to do, and they intervened in the first hour of the year in Nazor's driveway under Marjan, where a garbage fire broke out on a playground.

There was also work for firefighters in Makarska, where a fire broke out in an abandoned building, an old oil mill, at around 5 pm on Friday. In Podstrana, a fire broke out at 11:28 pm near the Tisak kiosk, which was put out by members of the local JVP, then in Klis Varoš, where a garbage fire broke out in a metal container five minutes after midnight.

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