Three persons sustained light injuries in a fire that erupted in a Beit Shemesh building early Monday morning 2 Rosh Chodesh Iyar. A father and two sons, 11 and 12-years-old were treated for light injures due to the blaze which was started by a battery that exploded. MDA and Ichud Hatzalah from Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh operated on the scene and the injured were transported to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital by MDA.

Firefighters responded to Nachal Lachish Street in Beit Shemesh on Monday morning. Seven apparatus operated on the scene and B”H they managed to get five adults and ten children out of the building during very heavy smoke conditions.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)