Bellavista fire leaves elderly man injured by burns and smoke inhalation

A fire declared in the early hours of this Sunday left a affected by burns and smoke inhalation after the fire that started in a house on Enamorados street, in the Seville district of Bellavista. The firefighters arrived afterwards … calls received at 6:35 a.m. at the scene, where they were to attend the owner where the fire broke out, an elderly person suffered burns and smoke inhalation.

After cutting off the street to traffic, emergency services extinguished a fire which ended up affecting the entire house, shocking the neighbors who witnessed the incident. Emergency services activated the Municipal Unit for Social Emergencies and Social Exclusion for the social assistance of this elderly man and six other people who lived in the house and who will not be able to stay there once the fire is completely extinguished, because the damage to the property must be assessed.

After firefighters responded, the house was sealed due to structural risk from fire damage. This motivated firefighters to put in place the necessary systems to ensure security so that tenants of the property could access and remove their belongings.

The owner of the house was taken to hospital by 061.