Several of Krakow settled without heating. Emergency repair will last until morning – BBC

– In connection with the failure are problems with heat supply to the blocks in the Azores, Bronowice and Prądnik White – told Radio Krakow Renata Krężel, a spokesman for the Krakow MPEC. She expressed the hope to restore heating until completely chilling of buildings. No heating is about 300 buildings lying at 57 Krakow’s streets. This 180 houses and 255 multi-family buildings.

“material defect”

The reason for the crash is “material defect” – burst heating pipes plastic housing. Firefighters had to pump out water from the pipeline, only after the employees of the Municipal Thermal Energy could go down and remove the fault. Repair involves the replacement of the pipeline.

On Sunday in Krakow thermometers showed 11 degrees Celsius below zero. According to forecasters, the night the mercury can drop to minus 15 degrees.

  icy cold across the country
throughout the country icy cold. The lowest temperatures occur in eastern Poland, and there also can be hardest felt.
Only yesterday due to hypothermia killed 9 people. Today reported new victims, including the Lublin region. Morning in the White Podlaska came across the corpse of a woman was found frozen in Pulawy man. In both cases they were in pustostanach and before drinking alcohol.
throughout the country were filled with night shelters and hands full of doctors. In such circumstances worsen the symptoms of respiratory and circulatory system, but shelters and reach a hospital patients frostbite. With the effects of very low temperatures they have to deal with residents of several Krakow settlements. Due to a malfunction of heating heat network is not there as much as 57 streets.