Firefighting bill to be settled at meeting

The bill for Mest’s firefighting work at Varðin Pelagic in Tvøroyri is still unpaid more than a year after the big factory burned to the ground.

Mest was asked to send one of its vessels, ‘Samson’, to Tvøroyri to help extinguish the big fire on 9 June 2017.

The Ministry of Fisheries has now called the two opposing parties in for a meeting on 27 September to settle the payment of the DKK 205,000 firefighting bill.

Tvøroyri City Council refuses to foot the bill, arguing that the fire was so extensive that it was classified as being on the third level of preparedness, and when a fire is at this level of preparedness, the state should foot the bill.

But the Ministry of Fisheries, representing the state in this case, disagrees. The ministry says that since it did not request assistance from Samson when the fire broke out, there is no legal requirement for the state to pay the bill.

Translated by prosa.fo