investigations & fire firegeezer on 10 Feb 2008 01:46 pm
Investigation Opens In Austria
AS THE VILLAGE OF EGG, AUSTRIA, IS GRIEVING TODAY following Friday night’s devastating nursing home fire that took 11 lives, (HERE) the local police have opened a criminal investigation into the blaze.
Reuters
The small town of 3,500 is especially affected by the large loss of life in a community where everybody knows one another.
According to a police officer quoted on Austrian public TV, the fire took hold near a chapel on the first floor in a garbage container. Only six of the 23 residents escaped unharmed. Of the six that were hospitalized, one 92-yr.-old woman is still in life-threatening condition. All of them suffered from smoke inhalation.
