Milos Bojanic on Baosici Fire: The Real Heroes
The singer spoke out on August 14, two days after the fire above Bijela reached the edge of his villa in Baosici. The houses were saved, no one was hurt, the hill burned.
Milos Bojanic spoke out on August 14, two days after a wildfire above Bijela reached the edge of his villa in Baosici, near Herceg Novi. He posted the message on Facebook, devoting most of it to the firefighters.
The first line of the post was not about the house at all. It was about how quickly everything can be lost.
“Today, maybe more than ever, I understood how fragile everything we spend years building really is,” the singer wrote.
He then described the moment the fire came closest to home:
The fire got so close to my villa in Baosici that for a moment I thought I would watch helplessly as it disappeared in the flames.
The villa was not damaged. The fire was brought under control, and Bojanic directed his gratitude at the people who put it out.
Fortunately, thanks to the fast, professional and dedicated work of the firefighters, the fire was brought under control and my villa was saved.
He made the same point again in a single line: “They are not just firefighters, they are real heroes.”
What the singer said about the fire itself
In a statement issued after the fire, Bojanic was more specific than he had been in his social media post. He said the hill behind the villa, across the street, was what burned, and that the flames never reached the houses.
The fires are right behind my villa, right across the street. There was no chance of it reaching my house. Yesterday they were putting out fires before dark, everything burned. This morning the helicopters came back again to deal with the smoke. Everything is safe, not a single house burned, it never got to the houses. No one was hurt, the hill burned.
Two statements from the same man, hours apart, and a completely different tone. The social media post was written while the fire was still visible from the terrace. The statement came later, once it was clear the line had held.
The fire broke out above Bijela and quickly spread toward Baosici. By evening it had reached the edge of the houses, Bojanic’s among them. We already reported on how the firefighting effort went: the houses in Baosici were saved, and ten firefighters arrived from Trebinje to help. By morning, helicopters were back over the area, dealing with smoke and with flare-ups reigniting from the ash.
How much has Bojanic invested in his Baosici villa?
The singer has owned the seaside house for decades, and for years it has been more than just a place to rest. Four years ago he put about 200,000 euros into renovating it and turned it into a business.
- the building was converted into apartments he rents to tourists
- every apartment has a terrace enclosed in glass
- the yard is lined with ornamental stone and high walls
- the villa comes with a private beach, reserved for the guests staying there
For the two-story house itself, as he revealed on one occasion, he spent about two million euros. That figure comes from his own earlier statement about how much he put in, not an estimate of what the property is worth now.
Over the summers, the house has hosted much of Serbia’s entertainment scene. Among the guests have been Lepa Brena, Goca Bozinovska, Zlata Petrovic and Nada Topcagic.
Bojanic has also said before that the sea is where he wants to end up.
“I want to spend the rest of my life on the water, on a catamaran,” he said in one of his earlier interviews.
After two days of fire above Baosici, that address remained untouched. The hill behind it burned.
