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United Hatzalah EMS volunteers treated approximately twenty injured people as a result of a fire that broke out in the Metzuda Hotel, located on Jerusalem street in Tzfat on Sunday, 10 Teves. Fire and Rescue workers were working to put out the fire and rescue those still trapped inside.

The head of the United Hatzalah chapter of the Galil Nachi Klein said, “When I arrived at the hotel together with other volunteers of United Hatzalah and the Fire and Rescue services, we were confronted with pillars of smoke and flames emanating from the building. Fire and Rescue services extracted dozens of people from the building, many of whom were suffering from light injuries and smoke inhalation. We treated close to twenty people including an infant. The majority of those injured were transferred for further treatment and observation to Ziff medical center.”

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)