01.05.2025 08:21
A fire that broke out in a restaurant in Şile spread to five adjacent restaurants, causing significant material damage. While there were no casualties in the fire, firefighting teams extinguished the flames after approximately three hours of intervention, but the restaurants became unusable.
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A fire that broke out in a restaurant in Şile quickly spread to 5 nearby restaurants. While the flames were extinguished by the fire brigade, the restaurants became unusable after the fire.
The fire broke out around 01:00 in a restaurant located in Üvezli Neighborhood for reasons yet unknown. Upon notification, a large number of fire, health, and police teams were dispatched to the scene. The flames quickly spread to 5 adjacent restaurants. It was learned that 6 restaurants were engulfed in flames, and the fire was extinguished in about 3 hours with the intervention of fire teams from Şile, Ümraniye, Çekmeköy, and Sancaktepe. During the fire, 2 people who tried to intervene in the flames on their own and 1 firefighter were slightly injured. First aid was provided to the injured in the ambulance. The 6 restaurants engulfed in flames became unusable after the fire. An investigation has been initiated regarding the cause of the fire.
"I WAS AT HOME, NEIGHBORS CALLED US, WE CAME"
Fuat Aytemiz, one of the restaurant owners, stated, "Our only consolation is that there were no casualties. God bless our gendarmerie, our firefighters, they are all here, and necessary actions are being taken right now. This place is completely a gözleme (Turkish pancake) restaurant; we do gözleme here. I think it started in the shop at the bottom. We have employees who sleep here at night. Thankfully, one of them noticed it. I was at home, and neighbors called us, we came," he said.
"NO CASUALTIES BUT THE MATERIAL DAMAGE IS VERY HIGH"
Another restaurant owner, Bedrettin Kaya, stated that he reported the fire after seeing it, saying, "I heard an explosion sound just as I was about to sleep. When we went outside, we saw the shops burning in flames. The gendarmerie came and helped. We called the fire department, and they also came. Thank God there are no casualties, but the material damage is very high. People have been victimized here. Their efforts, properties, and shops have burned down. It was a different kind of fire. It is reassuring that there were no casualties, but 4 shops were completely burned, and 2 shops were heavily damaged," he said.
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