Fire in an apartment: family away from home in Colognola – Photos and videos

At around 10.30pm on Monday 13 March the flames were visible from the street. Immediate help on the spot: the firefighters arrived with three teams, two from Dalmine and one from Bergamo. The cause of the fire is not yet known: to burn down an apartment on the second floor of a three-storey social housing building, in via Einstein 55, in the Colognola district of the city.

From the first information there are fortunately no injuries. Residents heard explosions and then flames broke out in the living room of a second-floor apartment. Perhaps due to a short circuit, the fire broke out in the house and the family of Brazilian origins, renting the apartment, managed to escape and are now outside the house, which seems unusable: they are mum, dad with two children in their twenties and a friend of their daughter who was in the apartment with them.

All residents – 12 apartments are inhabited out of the 18 in the building dating back to the 1960s – were forced out of the houses as a precautionAn ambulance was also on site which rescued an elderly resident on the top floor: the woman was helped down the stairs and out of the apartment building. The flames were extinguished in the evening, a carabinieri patrol was also at the scene.