A car fire broke out in the parking lot of the 'Bereishit' assisted-living complex in Moza this afternoon. No injuries were reported. The Jerusalem District fire chief credited the building's installed fire-safety systems — alarms, sprinklers, and compartmentation — with preventing the fire from spreading and averting a disaster.
Fire crews extinguished a car fire in the underground parking lot of the 'Bereishit' assisted-living complex in Moza on Monday afternoon without any injuries, the Israel Fire and Rescue Service said. The seven-story building houses both residents and staff. According to the service, the blaze started in a vehicle and could have escalated into a major incident due to its location in an occupied building with vulnerable occupants. Jerusalem District Fire Chief Shmulik Friedman said the fire-safety systems mandated by the service — detection, alarm, and suppression — gave firefighters vital time to control the blaze. 'This incident demonstrates most clearly why we insist on fire-safety requirements,' Friedman said in a statement. 'Fire-protection directives are not a formality or bureaucratic matter — they are meant to save lives.' The building had been equipped with those systems prior to the event. As The Zioneer reported on June 9, a similar car-fire incident at an assisted-living complex was also contained without casualties.
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