Fire at Miskolctapolca cave spa extinguished

The 800sqm building’s roof caught fire on Friday evening, Zsuzsanna Rinyu told MTI. Firefighters arrived after 7.30pm at the scene where the fire broke out in the 2nd floor of the aquatherapy department and spread further to the roof, she said. The rescue operation was carried out with ten vehicles and a team of 40 firefighters and was concluded after midnight, Rinyu added. “It managed to prevent the fire’s spreading to the nearby forest”.

Meanwhile, the new, incoming mayor of county seat Miskolc told a press conference on Saturday that the city would turn to the central government for help since the case “concerns lost tourism revenues and people’s jobs”. Jozsef Toth-Szantai said the next step to follow was to conduct an investigation to establish the cause of the fire and the damage caused.