The general emergency center was informed about a house burning with an open flame on Rudauusi Sodų 13-oji street at 9 a.m.
The reporter indicated that there were people inside the house.
The fire rescue forces of the Vilnius Board were dispatched to the scene of the incident, information about the incident was transferred to the Vilnius County Ambulance Station.
When the firefighters arrived, the wooden one-story house was already engulfed in flames.
Firefighters took two elderly people out of the house.
The victims were handed over to medics, who revived them.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to revive the victims. It remained for the doctors to declare the death of both people.
It was established that the fire in the house took the lives of a woman (born in 1933) and a man (born in 1931).
Additional firefighters were called in to extinguish the fire.
One firefighter was injured while fighting the fire.
While trying to remove the people found in the house, a burst of fire burned the firefighter’s shoulders and back.
He will be taken to the hospital due to burns.
The fire was extinguished at 11 a.m. 29 min. After that, the finishing works took place.
The cause of the fire will have to be determined by experts.
2024-08-15 02:57:03