The firefighters managed to control the fire that broke out on Kedushat Levy Street in the city The mother told firefighters that her son was playing with an electronic device that caught fire and set the bed on fire
A fire broke out this evening (Sunday) in an apartment on Kdoshet Levy Street in Beitar Illit. According to the fire and rescue system, the source of the fire is in the children’s bed. According to the mother’s testimony, the boy played with an electronic device that caught fire and set the bed on fire.
Firefighters who were nearby at the time and trained with Beitar Elite unit volunteers on a similar scenario, prevented the fire from spreading to the rest of the home space.
The shift commander, Rabbi Reshef Kfir Cohen, said: “A report was received at the Judea and Samaria police station about a fire in an apartment on Kedushat Levy Street in Beitar Illit. Firefighters and the Beitar Illit volunteer unit rushed to the scene. “.
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“The firefighters immediately began striving for contact with the fire center, in parallel with the search for trapped people and the release of heat and smoke,” Cohen added. “As the crews inside the apartment reported that the focus of the fire was on the bed in the nursery. If the family reported that a girl was playing with an electronic device on the bed, he ignited and lit the bed. She further says that in the first stage they left the house and called the firefighters.”
Firefighters and rescuers note that 13 people, including children and the elderly, have perished in the past two and a half months, most of them from fires that broke out due to heating the house by unsafe means such as coil heaters and heat spreaders, which were attached to their bed or other flammable materials.
Following the fire, the fire and rescue services issued guidelines for safe heating: use safe means of heating such as radiators or air conditioners and not heat-radiating heaters. Keep heaters away from flammable materials such as curtains, blankets, rugs or any other flammable material, do not place clothes or blankets on a heat spreader or radiator, turn off the heater while leaving the room.