{"id":281904,"date":"2017-08-28T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=281904"},"modified":"2017-08-28T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:15:00","slug":"fire-in-yerevans-nairit-chemical-plant-workshop-head-sacked-2-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/08\/28\/fire-in-yerevans-nairit-chemical-plant-workshop-head-sacked-2-months-ago.html","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Yerevan\u2019s Nairit Chemical Plant; Workshop Head Sacked 2 Months Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out at the Nairit chemical plant in Yerevan early Monday. According to representatives of Armenia\u2019s Emergency Situations Ministry, \u201cthe situation is under control, and firefighters are working on extinguishing the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/firenairit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-281897\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/firenairit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mushegh Ghazaryan, a ministry employee, told the reporters gathered at the scene that the causes of the fire could only be determined once it has been fully put out. At the same time, Ghazaryan said he has been told by representatives of Nairit\u2019s management that the fire had broken out in a workshop where ethynol, a highly hazardous substance, is stored.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WjWvK-NRmqs?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ministry representatives also advised the reporters to keep away from the scene so as not to breathe in \u201cthe toxic air,\u201d despite having insisted earlier that \u201cthe substance is not toxic and there is no danger of a chemical disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karine Shahverdyan, a former employee of Nairit, said in a phone conversation with Epress.am that there were several hundred tonnes of ethynol stored in the plant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty more employees were sacked on July 1, including the head of the workshop where the fire broke out today. Had the proper professionals been there, the accident would never have happened. But they were all sacked as they were thought to be running secondary and unimportant workshops,\u201d Shahverdyan argued.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty more employees were sacked on July 1, including the head of the workshop where the fire broke out today. Had the proper&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[65991,66056],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}