Due to a fire that broke out on the ground floor of a building where the leader of the Shuvu Banim community lives, Rabbi Eliezer Berland was forced to flee to the upper floors | Firefighters gained control of the fire, damaging the synagogue office An investigation was opened to investigate the circumstances
The leader of the Shuvu Banim community, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, was forced to flee to the upper floors of the building where he lives on Third Wall Street in Jerusalem, after a fire broke out on the ground floor. The rabbi who was with some of his followers was not injured in the incident.
The fire broke out shortly before 10:30 pm tonight (Saturday night), when a call was received at the Fire and Rescue District Control Center for the burning of a building at 13 Third Wall Street in Jerusalem.
Firefighters rushed to the scene found a fire spreading in a warehouse in a five-story residential building. Behadrei Haredim has learned that the synagogue office has been badly damaged.
Firefighters immediately began firefighting and searching for trapped people. During their operation, they learned that Rabbi Berland lives in the building, who fled with the other occupants of the building to the upper floors so that they would not be harmed by the heavy smoke that spread in the building.
A tenant who was trapped was rescued by the fighters unscathed. Fire control was recently achieved and at this time crews are completing the smoke release operation and final scans.
Rabbi Reshef Moti Melamed, commander of the Nation Station shift in charge of the firefighting operations, said: “The fire allegedly started in a warehouse that is part of the five-story building. The incident. A fire investigator has now arrived at the scene and has already begun investigating the circumstances of the incident. “
Rabbi Bland, it will be recalled, was arrested several months ago on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Nissim Sheetrit and Avi Edri more than thirty years ago. Although he linked himself to the investigation, he was released about a month after his arrest. His two followers, Baruch Sharvit and Binyamin Zeevi, were charged with the murder of the boy Nissim Sheetrit.