A 59-year-old man died in a fire in a tenement house at Jaracza Street in Łódź. Six fire brigades worked on site. Due to heavy smoke, 29 people were evacuated.
The fire broke out on Sunday before midnight in a ground floor apartment in a tenement house at 7 Jaracza Street in Łódź. Six fire brigades went to the site.
Fire in a tenement house. A man is dead
– Due to very heavy smoke, firefighters evaluated 29 people. While extinguishing the fire, the charred body of a 59-year-old man was found in the apartment. The probable cause of the fire was a cigarette, said Brigadier Jędrzej Pawlak from the Provincial Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Łódź.
The circumstances of the incident are being investigated by the police under the supervision of the prosecutor's office.
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