【事故】波兰华沙一座大桥失火 受严重损毁无人受伤

2月15日，波兰首都华沙一座大桥当地时间13日晚上失火，火势猛烈。这起事件无人受伤，但是大桥受到严重损毁。

据报道，几条主要干线的交通大受影响，不少路段大堵车。警方和消防单位正在调查大桥失火的原因。

报道称，起火的是华沙市内的拉赞科斯基大桥(Lazienkowski Bridge)。据了解，因存放在河边的一批木板起火，导致火势迅速蔓延，波及大桥的木桥面板，一发不可收拾。

据悉，整条大桥被迫封闭，所有车辆改道。尚不清楚大火是故意造成还是意外导致。

新闻原文：

Warsaw: Firefighters battled for 12 hours to contain a blaze that tore through the main bridge in Warsaw, cutting off one of the capital's key transport links.

No one was hurt in the blaze, but it is feared to have cause considerable damage to the Lazienkowski Bridge, a 40-year-old steel span that was set to undergo renovation.

"The main operation lasted 12 hours," fire service spokesman Pawel Fratczak told AFP today. "But the firefighters are continuing to monitor the site."

"Experts were going to examine the state of the bridge (Sunday) morning to check for any structural damage... But it is already clear that the asphalt on a long stretch will have to be relaid," Fratczak said.

Authorities also fear that the fire has damaged telecommunications, gas and electric cables that ran along the 1,388 foot bridge across the Vistula river.

The effort involved 144 firefighters deployed on both banks of the river as well as on a barge that sprayed jets of water onto the burning structure.

A huge cloud of smoke hung over the Saska Kepa neighbourhood near the banks of the Vistula on Sunday morning.

The fire broke out at 1630 GMT Saturday when wooden planks stored under the six-lane bridge burst into flames, quickly spreading to wooden parts of the bridge.

The Lazienkowski bridge was ravaged by a fire the year after it was built in 1974.

That fire was "almost identical", Fratczak said. "Who says history doesn't repeat itself?"