The head of the Fire Department and Public Safety Department in the Hebron Municipality, Ayman Nasser Al-Din, said that the Hebron Municipality firefighting crews dealt with, last night, a house fire on the third floor near Al-Rahma Square, in the city of Hebron.

Nasser Al-Din added that the fire was controlled and prevented from spreading to the rest of the building, and the residents of the house were evacuated, as some of them were treated by Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews to the hospital to receive treatment, as a result of suffocation.

Regarding the causes of the fire, he explained that preliminary investigations indicate an electrical short circuit inside the house that led to the outbreak of fire

Source: Maan News Agency