Last night, inhabitants of Luite District, Tallinn gathered at Veerenni St railway crossing to protest against the closure of their path home. At the crossing, a fire was lit. To put out out, fire brigade pulled hose across the railway tracks.
Protest fire put out by hose pulled across railway tracks
11th November 2015, 14:17
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At one side of the crossing, asphalt was removed yesterday. To the other, concrete blocks were placed. In the midst of the closed-up street, somebody had lit a fire of old euro-pellets. People stood around, warming themselves and cussing the city government vileness.
In half hour, sic policemen arrived who admonished the people to disperse and tried to find organisers of the event. In their turn, the policemen summonsed a fire truck to put out the fire.
A while later, the truck did pull up, but to the other side of the railway. Instead of driving the 1.5 kilometres to get to where the fire was, the rescuers pulled their hose right across the railway and quenched the flames.
Just seconds after they wrapped the hose up, and Elron train came rolling through. Bitter in soul, the people scornfully observed: «So that’s the way it’s gonna be from now on, that as a house catches fire the brigade comes behind the railway and pulls the hose across?»