One person died in a fire in a residential building in Upper Austria. A fire has broken out in a man’s home. The resident, who was dependent on a wheelchair, could no longer be saved. He died in front of the house.
A man was killed in a fire in a guarded residential building in Roßbach (Braunau am Inn district) on Sunday afternoon. The man in the wheelchair was removed from his burning apartment by the fire brigade and resuscitated by the emergency services, but died at the scene of the accident, the Red Cross said. The exact cause of the fire was initially unclear and is still under investigation.
resuscitation attempts
The emergency services were called shortly after 3 p.m. to the residential building with eight apartments, each with one resident. The man in whose apartment the fire broke out had to be brought out by the fire brigade. However, resuscitation measures were ultimately unsuccessful.
No more victims
The other residents managed to get to safety by leaving their apartments or by keeping windows and doors locked. The fire almost completely destroyed the apartment, but a total of 60 firefighters were able to prevent the flames from spreading to the rest of the apartment building, said Patrick Kaiser, commander and operations manager of the Roßbach fire department. The Roßbach, Fraham and Rödham volunteer fire brigades as well as two ambulances, an ambulance and a rescue helicopter were in action.
Source: Krone
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