Fire In Italy Retirement Home Kills Six
Umer Jamshaid Published July 07, 2023 | 12:10 PM
Milan, July 7 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Jul, 2023 ) :A fire at a retirement home in the early hours of Friday in Milan killed six people, firefighters said, with "numerous" residents hospitalised.
"Six people killed, numerous (others) suffering from smoke inhalation hospitalised. Dozens of people saved by firefighters who immediately evacuated the building," the fire brigade said on Twitter.
An AFP photographer saw the bodies of two of the victims being removed from the three-storey building which was reportedly housing 167 people when the fire started.
The cause of the blaze was not yet known, the fire brigade said.
Over 10 ambulances, various fire trucks and a silver mortuary van could be seen outside the building in the south of the Italian city.
Some eighty people were rushed to hospital, two of whom were fighting for their lives, Milan's fire chief Nicola Micele said.
Some 14 others were in a serious condition, Italian media said.
Five of the victims were women aged between 69 and 87 years old, while the sixth was a 73-year-old man, the reports said.
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said the fire "started in one room housing two female residents", both of whom were killed by the flames.
"It did not spread, not even to the neighbouring rooms, but the smoke is just as deadly and the four other victims died of smoke inhalation".
It was a member of staff who sounded the alarm at 1:20 am (2320 GMT Thursday), he said.
Fire chief Micele told Rai news that staff raised the alarm after spotting the smoke.
"Four teams of firefighters were immediately dispatched. They found themselves faced with very low visibility in a corridor inside one part of the building, and flames in one room".
"They focused on putting out the flames, then evacuating the guests.
"It was a particularly complicated evacuation both because of the smoke and because some of the guests were not able to walk".
The residents had to be evacuated "by being carried out, almost one and at time," mayor Sala said.
The council was working to quickly re-house people in other suitable retirement homes.
The privately-run "Casa per Coniugi" caters to people who are not self-sufficient but do not need hospital care.
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