This Saturday at 15:26, a fire broke out in the Caxias Prison Hospital in Oeiras. Among the prisoners, guards and non-staff staff of the prison, 26 people receive care in the prison hospital.
According to the DGRSP, a psychiatric patient hospitalized on the fourth floor of the prison hospital set fire to the mattress and bed linen in the room where he was staying, the fire was extinguished and smoke removal is ongoing. At the moment there are no reports of casualties.
ABOUT cm As it became known from a source in civil protection, the evacuation of the 4th and 5th floors of the building has already been ordered. There is a possibility, which has not yet been officially confirmed, that a prison guard was injured.
At the moment there are 52 operators and 19 firefighters, PSP and INEM vehicles. One of the corporations present is Dafundo.
Rescuers on site struggle to evacuate at least 20 prisoners from the prison due to the fire still burning.
The Lisbon Regional Relief Operations Center passed on specific information about the incident for later.
The fire started at 15:26 and was declared extinguished at 15:50.
Author: Miguel Curado This Joao Carlos Rodriguez
Source: CM Jornal
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