As a result of the accident, a neighbor required medical attention due to smoke inhalation and a child suffered from suffocationcould know Elonce. In addition, a French Bulldog breed puppy was rescued by neighbors.
“The fire was confined to a very small area of the department and is under control,” confirmed a Sappers firefighter to Elonce. Regarding the origin of the fire, he explained that It was due to “an electrical failure in a television, the one that was resting on a wooden cabinet with drawers.”
alarm and concern
“The television and a small part of the furniture was what caught fire,” he clarified and anticipated that, within the framework of the expertise to determine the circumstances of the fire, “the electrical wiring of the television will be inspected to try to determine where the fault was.”
“We checked room by room and on the upper floors there was a lot of smoke and poor visibility”confirmed a volunteer firefighter in relation to the situation that was generated from the 8th to the 14th floor.
“Some neighbors took it easy and others were very scared,” acknowledged the sapper. And he confirmed that all the windows have already been opened and progress is being made with the ventilation of the rooms.
Volunteer Firefighters and Sappers personnel intervened; in addition to troops from 911 and the first police station in Paraná.
“The neighbors went down slowly, down the stairs, and they knew how to evacuate very carefully,” confirmed another of the volunteers, Lucas García. One of the first preventive measures taken is to cut off the electricity and natural gas services in the building.
“In apartment 14 A we found two minors who we told them how to get down and we accompanied them to the ground floor where they were reunited with their parents.; we changed the tube and went up again”, reviewed another of the volunteer firefighters who intervened in the evacuation tasks.
Concern for building pets
“The neighbors expressed their concern for the pets that had been lost,” he told Elonce a nurse; It is that from the apartment where the fire started, the neighbors rescued a French Bulldog puppy and also a neighbor on the 9th floor was worried about a stray cat, which, moments later, was located.
“The amount of smoke coming out of the apartment was impressive,” a neighbor commented. (Elonce)