witnesses
Milan , December 28, 2014 – 18:55
A fiery hell. Hours after arriving the first evidence from the ferry Norman Atlantic in flames in the Adriatic Sea, “We are out on the deck, we are dying of cold and suffocate from the smoke, the fire spreads more and more.” It is the dramatic story, live TV, one of the shipwrecked Greek, Yorgos Stiliaras, that talking to Mega TV Channel, adds: “The floors are hot, people are shaking and coughing. Do not know if we’ll make it. ” A desperate cry for help: “The ship is tilted, we are in danger, we will burn like rats, do not know how we will resist,” explains Nikos Patheodosiou, Mega Channel, a castaway who asks desperately rescuers to “act quickly, otherwise there will be nothing left to do. ” On board the ship there are still 287 people: “We hugged close together to try to keep warm. If you do end up drowned, die of col d, “he says on the phone a passing Greek and reports that children and elderly people were rescued by helicopter.
Truckers: “Too many Tir crammed”
They point to the overload truckers shipwrecked on the ferry. “The top of heavy vehicles was friction with the garage ceiling, the trucks were loaded with oil and crushed like sardines, danced in the high waves,” they said on the phone to the greek newspaper To Vima: “Easy to be started from a spark there ‘.Drammatica also the testimony of those on board the ship-pin for the rescue, the ferry from Ancona Minoan Airlines that was directed in Greece: “This morning at around 6:30 our ship, which is a civilian ship, was enjoined by the Minister of the Greek navy: we were closest to the ferry on fire, which could be seen clearly from the portholes. So we have become the pivot of relief: half of the ship was isolated by security cordons and the bridge became the basis for landing helicopters that draw passengers saved and deposit them here for the first service, the other half of the ship is intended to us. We do not kno w when we will continue our journey: for now we continue to turn around the ship rescued. ”
The voices of survivors
And yet the fear in the eyes of a 12 year old girl Molfetta, near Bari, saved from the fire on Norman. “I was asleep, we were woken up by the alarm siren and was a general stampede.” Now is hospitalized in a room, which was called the ‘puppy’, the pediatric ward of the hospital in Cupertino. With her is a contemporary – 13 years – of Greek nationality, she escaped the fire. The twelve year old shows tranquility but it is really worried because it can not contact the parents. The mother and brother were rescued and are aboard a merchant, the father remained on the ship because there it works. His wife and children had gone to Greece to find it for the Christmas holidays and were returning home when the fire broke out. “I heard that the fire is given off by a truck – told even the twelve year – and then it spread to the ship.” While one of the two teenage sisters, of Greek nationality, r escued and hospitalized hours Perrino Hospital in Brindisi, explained with broken English: “It looked like the Titanic.” Among others wounded brought to Brindisi there are two men with fractures to a knee and to the nasal septum. The two girls were told that he had dropped on a lifeboat and falling overboard.
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Norman Atlantic, the photos of the ferry on fire
“melted the shoes, the crew did not help us”
A passenger rescued by Norman Atlantic, interviewed on the phone always on the Greek Mega TV, said:” Our shoes have begun to melt while we were in the reception area. ” “We’re burning and sinking and no one is able to save us. Help us not leave us alone “is the desperate plea for help that Nikos Papatheodosiou, one of the passengers of the ferry on fire off the coast of Corfu, he did live on the phone with Greek TV. The fire in the garage, where there were also tanks with olive oil, has caused extreme heat throughout the ship. Some passengers, achieved by the issuer Greek Skai TV told that no one would have raised the alarm. “I was with three other people – tells a woman – and we were sleeping when we heard a strange smell in the cabin, but there was no alarm. We opened the door and we saw a lot of smoke in the corridor, and the floor was in flames. The alarm is sounded much later and the crew d id not have any help. We were only given life jackets while we were on the ladder to reach the raft. No one knew what was going on and did not know where to go. ” Another survivor told Mega TV: “We heard the explosion of tires and various explosions, but did not fire any smoke alarm, there was no coordination.” And, interviewed by the Associated Press, Vassiliki Tavrizelou, rescued along with the two year old daughter, said: “They first called women and children to be evacuated from the ferry,” but the rescue ships “could not approach us because of rain and wind. We have been at least four hours on deck, in the cold and the rain. Then we heard the explosions. “
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Norman Atlantic, the rescue of shipwrecked
December 28, 2014 | 18:55
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