A woman died after a fire in a Frankfurt retirement home on Wednesday night.
The fire brigade is on a large scale.
Frankfurt - In the Johanna-Kirchner-Altenhilfezentrum in Gutleutstrasse in Frankfurt, a fire broke out in an apartment during the night.
As the Frankfurt fire brigade reports, the emergency services were alerted about the fire in Gutleutviertel at around 4 a.m. on Wednesday (27.01.2021).
The first emergency services were on site after just a few minutes and immediately initiated rescue measures and fire fighting.
The 76-year-old resident of the apartment where the fire broke out suffered severe burns and smoke poisoning.
The fire brigade was able to first rescue the woman from the apartment and hand it over to the rescue service.
According to information from the Frankfurt police, she was taken to a special clinic in Offenbach, where she died that morning.
Fire in the Awo retirement home in Frankfurt: The resident dies in the morning
The fire was quickly extinguished and the surrounding apartments were not affected.
The remaining apartments in the residential complex in Frankfurt's Gallus are therefore still habitable.
In total, the rescue service and the fire brigade were in action with 9 vehicles and 26 personnel.
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On Wednesday night a fire broke out in an AWO retirement home in Frankfurt.
© Screenshot Twitter Fire Department Frankfurt
According to the fire brigade, the mission ended at around 5.15 a.m.
No information can yet be given about the amount of damage.
In addition, it is currently unclear why the fire broke out in the nursing home in Frankfurt.
The police have taken over the investigation into the cause of the fire.
Only a week ago there was a devastating fire in Frankfurt *.
The 42-year-old Frankfurt star restaurateur Sam Kamran was killed in the fire.
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