At 6.40pm on Wednesday 24 April, the firefighters intervened in Via Ruffoni in Verona due to a fire in an apartment in a condominium: 15 people who were stuck on the upper floors due to the smoke that invaded the room were brought to safety. stairs. The flames broke out in an apartment on the first floor of a 5-storey building with 20 apartments.
The firefighters who rushed from the station with three vehicles and 9 operators began extinguishing and evacuating the people stuck in the stairwell, who had already inhaled smoke. Overpressure hoods are used by firefighters and are worn by people to cross areas filled with smoke. Of the 15 people evacuated, 11 were taken to hospital for further checks.
Once the complete shutdown and clean-up operations with the evacuation of smoke were completed, three apartments have currently been declared uninhabitable.
The causes of the fire are being investigated by firefighters. The rescue operations ended just before midnight.
