22 people evacuated overnight from five-storey apartment building in Valmiera
An electrical distribution cabinet caught fire in an apartment building in Valmiera overnight into Sunday, and 22 people were evacuated. The State Fire and Rescue Service reported this.
A fire in an electrical distribution cabinet in a five-storey apartment building in Valmiera, Latvia, led to the evacuation of 22 people overnight into Sunday. The incident was reported by the State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD), the Latvian agency responsible for fire safety and rescue operations.
An electrical distribution cabinet is a piece of building equipment that splits the power supply among different parts of the building. A fire in such a cabinet in a multi-apartment building can put residents at risk, so people were taken out of the building.
The information released so far gives only the number of evacuated residents and where in the building the fire broke out. It does not say whether anyone was injured, what caused the fire, or whether residents have been able to return to their homes.
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