{"id":3005,"date":"2025-08-04T08:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smrekovit.local\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2025-10-17T07:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:26:21","slug":"fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/pozar\/","title":{"rendered":"It began and ended with a fire \u2013 a look at the beginning and end of production in Naklo"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are publishing an interesting perspective by Viktorija Konc, wife of Ivo Konc, on the beginning of the production of the first spruce resin ointment<\/a> in 1990 and on the end of production in Naklo in 2015, when for several years production had already been taking place both in Naklo and in Ljubljana. Since then, production has continued only in Ljubljana<\/em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The workshop for spruce resin ointment production in Naklo after the fire in May 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Year 1990<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It all began with fire. Ivo<\/a> prepared the first ointment right in an open garage or in front of it. He used a large gas burner and a big pot. He stirred it with a large wooden spoon, but caution was needed \u2013 above all, presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viktorija Konc with her husband Ivoto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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It happened that his father, Lojze, called to him across the garden, and Ivo walked over to him, and the two disappeared around the corner. Of course, he lost track of time. In the meantime, the foam rose over the edge of the pot and caught fire on the burner. The wooden spoon and the contents of the pot also ignited. I was cooking lunch when my nephew arrived and shouted that there was a fire. We rushed to the garage. I grabbed an old sheet (thank God it was there!), soaked it with water, and threw it over the flames. In the meantime, I also turned off the gas. Instinctively, I rolled up my sleeves. The steam brushed against me, and both my arms turned red up to the elbows. I applied spruce resin ointment. By the time we finished lunch, there were no signs of burns left. That\u2019s when we discovered that spruce resin ointment also helps with burns!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

May 2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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It began with a fire. And it ended with a fire on May 19, 2015. Matic had already taken over the business years earlier, while Ivo continued to make as many spruce resin ointments in his workshop as we sold from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that day, a large flame engulfed the interior of the building with the workshop. The fire burst through the door and window. Ivo managed to escape in time and was already calling the firefighters when I rushed outside. I thanked divine providence that we had pruned the birch and cut down the larch that autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With our grandchildren, we watched through the window as the firefighters arrived within minutes. We just kept thinking, \u201cLet the gas cylinder not explode.\u201d They managed to get the fire under control and pulled the cylinder out into the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything in the workshop burned down. We later restored the building, and it now serves a different purpose, while since then, production has taken place exclusively in Ljubljana, in Matic\u2019s modern, well-equipped laboratory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Detail from the interior of the burned-down spruce resin ointment workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Objavljamo zanimiv pogled Viktorije Konc, \u017eene Ivota Konca, na za\u010detek proizvodnje prvega smrekovega mazila leta 1990 in na konec proizvodnje v Naklem leta 2015, ko je \u017ee nekaj let proizvodnja potekala tako v Naklem kot v Ljubljani. Od tedaj proizvodnja poteka le \u0161e v Ljubljani. Leto 1990 Za\u010delo se je s Po\u017earom. Ivo je prvo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,147,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ivo-konc","category-izkusnje-in-zgodbe","category-o-smrekovitu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smrekovit.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}