Wounded 3 children and 4 women in a terrible fire in Jeddah

Citizen – Buraidah

Three children and four women were taken to hospital in critical condition due to a fire in the district of al-Rabwa, east of Jeddah.

The spokesman of the Ministry of Defense in the Mecca region, Colonel Said Sarhan, said the seven cases of suffocation (three children and four women) had been attended by the Red Crescent on the scene of the incident, which involved immediate transportation to the hospital. One of them is critical.

He pointed out that the fire was declared on the second floor of a building consisting of three floors, the occupants of the ground floor and the second floor coming out with the beginning of the fire. fire to safe areas outside the building, while the intensity of smoke rising from the second turn (the fire zone) prevented residents of the third pass, After the thick clouds of smoke crept into the hallways of the ground, as well as the internal ladder between them and looking for a lifeline.

"In the meantime, when the rescue teams arrived at the scene, three children and four women had tried to search for a lifeline that had failed due to the dense smoke that covered all the corridors and brought them into Rescue teams responded by storming the building from the doorway through the stairs to the interior of the third cycle at a time when vision was lacking due to the density of smoke and power cuts, seven cases directly affected by the smoke were published and began to deplete and fall due to the inhalation of toxic smoke caused by burning.

"Rescue teams have transferred seven cases to the roof of the building, providing the closest security point for Red Crescent teams in first aid, while the Red Crescent teams continue to transport them to the hospital. .

He added that fire crews have synchronized with rescue operations and have reached the fire zone, specifically in a room of a second-floor apartment. The fire was extinguished and the building was filled with fumes that invaded the hallways and interior stairs.

The spokesman of the Civil Defense in the Mecca region called on all citizens and residents to give the security means in the housing the importance of observing them through the acquisition of sensors equipped with a security detector. smoke as well as a fire extinguisher for security reasons inside the housing. The residential and private villas, where the accident occurred on the second floor, result from the smoke of the third floor inhabitant due to the infiltration of vapors and l '. absence of fire.

The statement concluded that "with the end of the fire and rescue operations, the investigators began their work by collecting all the information and handing the case over to the competent authority".