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Vaud apartment fire kills pets, injures tenants

An investigation is continuing into an apartment fire in Moudon, a town in the northern part of the canton of Vaud, that forced the evacuation of 34 people on Sunday night.

Published: 8 April 2013 11:32 CEST
Vaud apartment fire kills pets, injures tenants
View of the town of Moudon. Photo: Roland Zumbühl

Several people were injured in the blaze that broke out in an apartment on the first floor of the four-storey building just before 7.30pm, Vaud cantonal police said.

One person was taken to the Payerne hospital and four were treated for injuries outside the building, cantonal police said.

Several pets, including a dog, two cats and two rabbits, died in the fire, police said.

Fire fighters used a ladder truck to evacuate four residents from one of the building’s 15 apartments.

The town’s civil protection service looked after evacuated residents, some of whom were housed with relatives.

Two apartments sustained significant damage and will not be usable for some time, police indicated.

The tenants will be either rehoused by the municipality or by relatives, police added.

Around 50 emergency response officials responded to the fire, including 22 fire fighters with seven vehicles.

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Barcelona fire kills four, including two children

A fire ripped through an abandoned bank occupied by squatters in central Barcelona on Tuesday, killing four people, including a baby and a three year-old boy, Spanish firefighters said.

Published: 30 November 2021 10:41 CET
Police and firefighters gather outside an abandoned building where a blaze broke out early on November 30, 2021 in Barcelona, killing four people.
Police and firefighters gather outside an abandoned building where a blaze broke out early on November 30, 2021 in Barcelona, killing four people. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP)

“While we were battling the fire, we found four people. Emergency services tried to revive them but unfortunately they failed, they could not do anything to save them,” the head of the firefighting operation, Ángel López, told reporters.

Firefighters rescued four other people who were inside the building while putting out the blaze, he added.

Those four were treated for smoke inhalation.

Firefighters rushed to the scene at around 6 am after being warned that a blaze had broken out in the building, Mr Lopez said.

While Mr López said it was not clear how the four dead people were related, Barcelona-based daily newspaper La Vanguardia said they were all members of a Romanian family.

A spokesman for Catalonia’s regional police force, the Mossos d’Esquadra, said an investigation had been opened into the causes of the fire.

In December 2020, four people were killed after a blaze ripped through an industrial complex occupied by squatters, many of them African migrants, near Barcelona.

Over 100 squatters were believed to be living in precarious conditions at the abandoned complex in Badalona, a suburban town north of the city.

In addition to the four deaths, more than 20 people were injured in the blaze.

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