A 70-year-old woman perished in a fire in a building in Rehovot: "If there was a smoke detector you might have survived"
The fire broke out in the woman's apartment, which was later found lifeless with the arrival of firefighters and rescuers.
In the incident, a 41-year-old man was moderately injured and taken to the hospital, and ten others were slightly injured due to smoke inhalation, and were treated on the spot.
"The therapist tried to rescue the woman from the room, but the intensity of the burning was too strong."
Two Frumkin
19/01/2022
Wednesday, 19 January, 2022, 02:10 Updated: 02:37
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A 70-year-old woman perished last night (Wednesday) in a fire that broke out in her apartment in a building in Rehovot.
An MDA team that arrived at the scene determined her death on the spot, and evacuated another 41-year-old man who was moderately injured to Shamir-Assaf Harofeh Hospital in Beer Yaakov. Ten other people who were lightly injured by smoke inhalation were treated on the spot
. In a six-story building on Tova and Tuvia Miller Street in the city. Firefighters and rescuers found her after scans on the spot. More to save.
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A smoke detector might have saved her.
Fire scene, night (Photo: Fire and Rescue)
"When we arrived at the scene, we saw fire and smoke in the apartment on the fifth floor, people came out of the building and came to our crews," said Yehuda Marcus, an MDA emergency medicine paramedic. "After inhaling a lot of smoke, she was without signs of life and we have no choice but to determine her death."
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