A fire in a residential building on McDonald Street in Netanya left 25 people injured, Ichud Hatzala reported. Three victims — a mother and two children — were in moderate condition, and 10 others in light condition were evacuated to hospital. The fire follows an earlier blaze at the same building complex reported overnight.
A fire in an eight-story residential building on McDonald Street in Netanya injured 25 people, Ichud Hatzala reported early Thursday morning. Rescue crews treated three victims — a mother and two children — in moderate condition, and 10 others in light condition were evacuated to hospital. The remaining 12 were assessed and released at the scene.
The new injuries come after a night of two related blazes at the same address. As The Zioneer first reported at 23:36 Jerusalem Wednesday, a fire originally reported as a McDonald's branch blaze was quickly clarified as a building fire with multiple people trapped. By 23:36, the second thread version reported that firefighters had rescued 25 people from the same building complex and evacuated 13 to hospital. The current fire is the second blaze at the address within hours.
Source quality evolved from initial unspecified media reports, to a municipal spokesperson confirmation of trapped people, to on-record figures from N12 and later Ichud Hatzala. A prior unrelated fire on Borokhov Street was reported by The Zioneer on June 12, but the McDonald Street complex had no known fire history before Wednesday.
The cause of tonight's fires remains under investigation. It is not yet clear whether the two blazes at the same building are connected, and no official statement on origin has been released.
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