Rescued from apartment
Viennese man seriously injured in fire
A man was seriously injured in an apartment fire in Vienna-Ottakring on Friday evening. He had to be intubated and ventilated and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Witnesses had noticed smoke from the street and in the stairwell of the building in Panikengasse. The alerted fire department started an extinguishing attack under breathing apparatus in the apartment on fire and checked the building. There they found a person who had fallen. The 50-year-old suffered second-degree burns and had to be rescued using a rescue tub.
Cigarette probably caused the fire
It is not assumed that the fire was caused by someone else. The apartment was locked from the inside and the man was home alone, according to the police investigating the cause of the fire. The flames were probably caused by a cigarette or embers on the couch.
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