{"id":314761,"date":"2021-04-16T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=314761"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:08:53","slug":"orthodox-priest-rescues-two-people-from-fire-in-constanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/orthodox-priest-rescues-two-people-from-fire-in-constanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Priest rescues two people from fire in Constan\u021ba"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Orthodox priest rescued two people from a building engulfed in flames in Constan\u0163a. Assisted by two off-duty firefighters, father Gic\u0103 Silitr\u0103 took a 60-year-old woman in his arms and evacuated a 65-year-old man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two people are parishioners of the church pastored by Fr Silitr\u0103, which is in the vicinity of the buildings on Iederii Street (Constanta district Km 4-5), which caught fire Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

“The church is close to the scene, and after the evening service, the faithful who were at the church announced to me: Father, there is smoke outside. I went out and saw that nuisance in our parish and I went to help with what was needed,” the priest declared for a local publication.<\/p>\n

Father Gic\u0103 did not imagine that he would play an essential role in the rescue operation.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t think we would end up saving lives,” the father said.<\/p>\n

“Arriving there, being few people, the firefighters were not yet on the spot. A young man was trying to help, and I jumped to the rescue. I climbed on the roof of the neighbouring house. I saw in the house engulfed in flames two older people, being close to the parish, I knew them. Then I went up with the other young men who were there, and I took them out of the house full of flames,” said the priest.<\/p>\n

“Father Gic\u0103 went in there and took them out in his arms. Otherwise, they had no chance, given the flames that were there. No, no, no! What a flame! They had no chance! Absolutely not!”
\n– witness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the victims did not need medical care at the hospital. However, the man had burns on approximately 25% of his body surface and was transported to the Emergency Department of Constan\u0163a County Hospital. His condition is stable.<\/p>\n

Photo source: NBC news<\/p>\n

Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Orthodox priest rescued two people from a building engulfed in flames in Constan\u0163a. Assisted by two off-duty firefighters, father Gic\u0103 Silitr\u0103 took a 60-year-old woman in his arms and evacuated a 65-year-old man. The two people are parishioners of the church pastored by Fr Silitr\u0103, which is in the vicinity of the buildings on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":314747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16414,20817,18996],"class_list":["post-314761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-orthodox-priest"],"better_featured_image":{"id":314747,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1240,"height":739,"file":"2021\/04\/201004-glass-fire-california-jm-1522_1fedad0dab333f9433af7b514a22b2fa.fit-1240w.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"201004-glass-fire-california-jm-1522_1fedad0dab333f9433af7b514a22b2fa.fit-1240w-890x530.jpg","width":890,"height":530,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/201004-glass-fire-california-jm-1522_1fedad0dab333f9433af7b514a22b2fa.fit-1240w-890x530.jpg"},"large":{"file":"201004-glass-fire-california-jm-1522_1fedad0dab333f9433af7b514a22b2fa.fit-1240w-1024x610.jpg","width":1024,"height":610,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/201004-glass-fire-california-jm-1522_1fedad0dab333f9433af7b514a22b2fa.fit-1240w-1024x610.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"201004-glass-fire-california-jm-1522_1fedad0dab333f9433af7b514a22b2fa.fit-1240w-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/201004-glass-fire-california-jm-1522_1fedad0dab333f9433af7b514a22b2fa.fit-1240w-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":314761,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/201004-glass-fire-california-jm-1522_1fedad0dab333f9433af7b514a22b2fa.fit-1240w.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314761\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=314761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314761\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314747\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=314761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=314761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=314761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}