Two children die from apartment fire in Lower Austria – Diepresse.com
Two children died in a fire in an apartment of an apartment in Gmünd in Lower Austria on Saturday.
The mother was seriously injured and flown to the hospital by a emergency helicopter. Several residents were saved from the property, five people with suspicion of smoke gas poisoning were admitted to the surrounding hospitals, the district fire brigade command reported. Over 100 helpers were on duty.
According to the police, the affected children are one and five years old. Both were discovered in the fire apartment and saved from the danger area, it said in a broadcast of the district command Gmünd. « Despite immediately initiated resuscitation measures by the fire brigade and emergency services, no signs of life could be found, » it was emphasized.
The flames in the nine apartments had broken out for lunch. Already during the alarm, the helpers had been informed about the missing people in the building. Several respiratory protection teams then started in parallel with the fire fighting and the person search.
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Strong smoke development as a problem
According to fire brigades, the strong smoke development caused difficulties. Residents – among them a family and toddler – had to be saved via a lifting device and using fire escape hoods by the stair -free stair -free staircase made in front of it.
The volunteer fire departments city of Gmünd, Gmünd-Eisenstein, Gmünd-Breitensee, Waldenstein, Dietmanns, Hoheneich, Albrechts and the city of Schrems were alerted. « Fire from » could be given shortly after 1 p.m., Mattias Böhm, head of operations and commander of the Gmünd fire brigade, said to the APA. He spoke of an assignment that « one will certainly no longer be forgotten ». Now the following tasks are the fire check and the « mental support of the members that one gets back to talk, » said Böhm.
An acute team from emergency call Lower Austria, a crisis intervention team from the Red Cross in Lower Austria and fire brigade peers are deployed for medical and psychological support. There were also 16 members of the emergency services and ten police officers in place. The cause of the fire was unclear for the time being. (APA)
