In eastern Poland, a fire station opens its doors for migrants

A volunteer sorts clothes for migrants at a centre for migrants in a fire station during migrant crisis on Belarusian - Polish border, in Michalowo, Poland, November 11, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

MICHALOWO, Poland (Reuters) - As migrants on the Polish-Belarus border face cold and hunger, people in the eastern Polish town of Michalowo have decided to help, setting up a centre in a fire station where migrants can come for warmth, food and drink.

So far, out of the masses trying to gain entry to Poland and the European Union, two migrants, one Iraqi and the other Syrian, stayed in the fire station for two nights, according to a worker there who declined to be identified.