Lebanon marked a solemn day of remembrance on Friday, commemorating the victims of the devastating port blast that struck Beirut three years ago. The tragic explosion occurred on August 4, 2020, when hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse detonated, resulting in the death of at least 220 people and injuring thousands…
For nearly three years now, 10 portraits on the outer wall of a Beirut fire station have honoured its firefighters killed in the explosion at the city's port. Their surviving colleagues, grinding on as Lebanon's economic meltdown guts their salaries and budgets for repairs and equipment while a threat of wildfires looms large, say Aug. 4, 2020, remains burned in their memories. "As a fire brigade, we extract corpses, we see ugly things other people can't bear. but the port blast was something else," brigade chief Captain Ali Najem told Reuters.
For nearly three years now, 10 portraits on the outer wall of a Beirut fire station have honoured its fire-fighters killed in the explosion at the city s port, Reuters reports. Their surviving coll.
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