The Lisbon Judicial Police (PJ) have been called to investigate a fire that left six people homeless and two injured, which broke out late on Thursday in an apartment in a building opposite the former headquarters of the criminal police agency on Rua Gomes Freire.
The fire broke out at 18:38 in an apartment located on the 3rd floor of building No. 191, an official source at the Zapadores fire department reported. CM 21 operational personnel and 7 vehicles were mobilized. “Upon arrival, the building had already been evacuated. The PSP had to temporarily close traffic,” the same source explained.
The apartment owner and a firefighter were injured by smoke and taken to hospital. The apartment was left uninhabitable, forcing six residents to seek shelter.
THAT CM You know that the police were called to investigate because two different fire locations were discovered, namely in the storeroom and in one of the bedrooms of the apartment.
The incident was declared over only at 23:20.
Author: Miguel Curado
Source: CM Jornal
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