Fire has damaged the long-empty Czernowitzer Rabbi’s Synagogue in Rădăuţi, and surrounding buildings.
According to a statement from the regional fire department carried by local media, the fire broke out Monday night. Five fire trucks and their crews fought the flames for hours before finally extinguishing it at 8:15 Tuesday morning.
According to the fire department spokesman:
when the crews arrived, the fire was widespread in two annexed buildings, a common body, and the flames were spreading to the wooden roofs of the buildings attached to them, namely a decommissioned synagogue, a house of prayer, a residential annex and a home. As a result of the fire, several construction elements of the affected buildings were damaged.
The statement said the cause of the blaze was most likely an electricity fault.
There were no injuries, and there were no immediate details as to the scope of the damage, other than it extended over 500 square meters.
The synagogue is believed to have been built around 1900 and has stood empty, in deteriorating condition, for decades.
See report in local media, with pictures
1 comment on “Romania: Fire damages long-disused synagogue in Rădăuţi”
Source of fire was electrical? Hmmmm, if the property has not been used for years, how could there still be live electrical wiring going to the property? Decades after the Holocaust and nothing has really changed.