The fire service said in a statement that the blaze broke out Monday evening in a storage room on the top floor of a five-story building in Manlleu, a town around 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Barcelona. The cause of the blaze has not been identified and officials are looking into it. The five people killed also didn't live in the building, police said.
A fire at the Stanley M. Isaacs Houses left three people injured after flames broke out on the eighth floor of one of the NYCHA towers on First Avenue between East 93rd and East 94th Streets, according to the New York City Fire Department. Firefighters said the blaze was brought under control in about 30 minutes and that crews searched the building to ensure no other occupants were trapped.
A person has died after a fire at an apartment building in Colborne, Ont. early Friday morning, said the Ontario Provincial Police. First responders attended calls for a residential building on fire in Colborne in the Township of Cramahe around 4:15 a.m. Friday, said OPP on social media. They said residents were relocated and multiple fire departments from the county helped attack the blaze. A person was found dead during a search of the building, said police.
Insult has been added to injury for the estimated 200 people who were displaced by Monday morning's apartment fire in Oakland's Uptown, after their landlord issued them all eviction letters. You may recall the early morning apartment fire in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood at 19th Street and Broadway on Monday of this week, which also damaged the ground-floor Dope Era clothing store owned by local hip-hop icon Mistah F.A.B.
Firefighters responded around 4 a.m. to reports of a fire alarm and smoke at the complex on the 500 block of Baden Avenue, according to a news release from the South San Francisco Police Department. Upon arrival, firefighters found that one unit was entirely engulfed by flame. The rest of the building was evacuated. Firefighters then worked to extinguish the burning unit and put out the fire quickly, authorities said. Damage to the unit was limited.
He said insulation was slowly burning in the walls and between the two buildings, which has led to smoke and high levels of carbon monoxide. This is going to be a prolonged event every time we thought we had it under control, it came back up, said Jessop, adding residents of both buildings have been evacuated. This is certainly probably the most challenging fire to extinguish that Toronto has seen in years.
A Sunday fire in an Everett apartment complex is being investigated as suspicious, according to the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services. The Everett Fire Department responded around 1:50 a.m. to 25 Charlton St., where they were met with heavy smoke and an active sprinkler on the building's sixth floor, the department said on social media. The fire was extinguished quickly, the department said.
Large numbers of police descended on an apartment building in the German city of Munich on Wednesday after a fire broke out inside, followed by loud explosions. One person was seriously injured, a police spokeswoman told AFP in the Bavarian state capital of Munich. She did not confirm media reports that shots had been fired and that one person had been found dead.
A second death has been confirmed at the site of an early morning apartment fire in San Rafael on Thursday. The body of a woman was found on Friday, and the fire is being deemed suspicious because of how rapidly spread. [KTVU] Police in Yerington, Nevada busted a 48-year-old man on his way to Burning Man allegedly toting a large haul of narcotics and prescription drugs, packaged for sale.
