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Fire alarm in Winterthur ZH! Shortly after 2 a.m. Wednesday, a report came in that there was a fire in a two-family home. “The emergency services immediately withdrew and began to extinguish the fire,” the Zurich canton police wrote in a message.
A 61-year-old man was found in the garden of the property who had suffered burns. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance and is in critical condition. For an 84-year-old woman on the property’s first floor, any help came too late – she succumbed to her injuries on the spot. A dog also died in the fire.
Several hundred thousand francs damages
Residents of neighboring apartment buildings were evacuated as a precautionary measure and treated in the large ambulance from Schutz & Rettung Zürich. Now they have been able to return to their apartments.
The cause of the fire is not yet clear and is being investigated by the fire investigation service of the Canton of Zurich police and the Winterthur / Unterland public prosecutor’s office. Property damage is estimated at several hundred thousand francs. (noo)
