JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: A 3-year-old chareidi girl has died after a fire broke out Monday morning in a Petah Tikva residential building. Police have opened an enquiry into the blaze.
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At 8:36 on Monday morning a report was received about a fire in a building in Ichilov street. MDA and United Hatzalah medics treated people suffering from smoke inhalation and transferred five people to hospital, including a 3-year-old girl in critical condition, who was declared dead at the hospital. A 7-year-old boy was in moderate condition and a 42-year-old woman and her 4-year-old son and 3 month old baby were in light condition. A 45-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
Avichai Haddad, an MDA paramedic, said that “immediately after receiving the alert about a fire and people trapped in a residential building we went to the scene with many volunteers. The woman escaped independently with two children suffering from smoke inhalation. We gave them oxygen and transferred them to hospital. A 7-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl were evacuated from the apartment by firemen and we placed them immediately in a MICU (Mobile Intensive Care Unit) for medical treatment. The girl was unconscious and not breathing and was taken to hospital during resuscitation and the boy was conscious and stable but had suffered burns and smoke inhalation.”
Police said that they are investigating the fire in which 5 residents suffered from smoke inhalation as well as two policemen who were part of the evacuation team.