The industrial building houses a dozen band practice rooms. The water spoiled some of them.
in Espoo In the industrial area located on the border of Leppävaara and Lintuvaara, a major water damage occurred on Sunday evening.
The two-story industrial building located on Palokärjenkuja has several band practice rooms.
The fire marshal on duty Peik Joutsenen according to the report, several cubic meters of water leaked from a broken pipe on the second floor of the building, which also flowed down to the lower floor.
The leak was noticed by people present in the band practice rooms downstairs, when water started leaking from the ceiling onto them and the instruments.
“After noticing the leak, they rushed upstairs to see where the water was coming from and noticed that there was a noise coming from the locked room,” says Joutsen.
The notification to the rescue service of Länsi-Uusimaa came at 19:51.
Emergency services broke into the locked space and got the leak stopped by closing the line valve.
Joutsen thinks that the freezing weather caused the frozen water pipe to crack. The pipe was located in a space where the temperature had dropped.
“Just like metal, ice also expands when it heats up”, Joutsen explains the phenomenon.
According to the fire chief, the water damaged only part of the training rooms, which are several, about twenty, in the industrial building of several hundred square meters.
According to the fire chief, the building suffered from a water leak, as water went inside the structures and into the electrical and ventilation ducts. The water also caused damage to the movable property of the premises and the musical instruments that were there.
There is no risk of collapse due to water in a concrete building.
The rescue service was able to remove visible water from the premises. Next is the drying of the premises, which is the responsibility of the private owner of the property.
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