PUTEVI AD Uzice, reacting among the first after the competent services, provided machinery and hired workers to extinguish the fire at the "Duboko" landfill - 30 trucks, 10 excavators and bulldozers, 14,000 tons of tailings. From Easter on May 5th, 85 workers of PUTEVI AD Uzice worked day and night in shifts for 20 days until the fire was successfully extinguished.

The Vice President of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Minister of Environmental Protection, Irena Vujovic, visited Uzice several times, together with the Mayor of Uzice, Jelena Rakovic Radivojevic, to check in situ the measures taken to extinguish the fire that broke out on May 5th at the "Duboko" landfill.

With day and night effort and exertion, after the fire was successfully extinguished, the workers who participated in extinguishing the fire received Certificates of Appreciation from the City of Uzice.