The nighttime fire caused serious damage to a residential building on Vienna’s Mortaraplatz in the Brigittenau district. As reported, 39 firefighters fought the fire in a first-floor apartment for two hours. Three people had to be rescued from the house by firefighters – including pensioner Ernestine, who reported on the operation at “Krone” the day after the fire.
The next morning there are clear traces of the late evening fire at Mortaraplatz. The windows, from which high flames had broken out hours earlier, are clearly damaged. In the courtyard are several artifacts that came from the apartment that burned down. Glass from the shattered windows line the area around the scene. Inside the building, the intense smell of smoke dominates.
Fire in adjacent apartment
And some residents are still a little shocked, as evidenced by the local inspection “Krone”. For example, with the woman who lives next door to the apartment where the fire broke out that night.
The pensioner initially did not notice the fire. At 11:45 pm she was in bed and asleep. But then she suddenly woke up, the 80-year-old reports in the “Krone” interview: “Suddenly someone shone a flashlight in my face,” said the pensioner, “and said to me: ‘Don’t worry, we are no burglars, we’re from the fire brigade.”
“My blood pressure is a little high”
The helpers then took her outside and supported her as she went downstairs, Ernestine continues. The pensioner was not injured in the fire, nor did she suffer from flue gas poisoning – despite the proximity of the burned apartment. However, the excitement after the fire operation did not leave her untouched. “My blood pressure has been a little high since then,” Ernestine says.
In addition to the pensioner, the fire brigade also rescued a man with a child from the house. The other residents had managed to get themselves to safety. A man had to be taken to hospital with injuries by the professional rescue service.
An investigation is currently underway into the cause of the fire. There are rumors going around the house that it was only a matter of time before something happened there…
Source: Krone
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