Two people are fighting for their lives as the result of a fire that broke out in a building on Yosef Mizrachi Street in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood of Yerushalayim on Wednesday, 13 Menachem Av. A third person, a woman, was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The call came in at around 4:30AM, and firefighters immediately headed into the burning building to rescue persons trapped inside.
Fire Commander Moshe Suissa was the officer in charge on the scene, confirming three persons were taken out of the blaze. An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the fire.
United Hatzalah EMT Yechiel Stern was among those on the scene, explaining he treated an 82-year-old woman and a man in his 30s, both in very serious condition from smoke inhalation. The third victim is a 71-years-old woman, according to MDA officials. The seriously injured victims were taken by MDA to Shaare Zedek Hospital while the 71-year-old woman was transported to Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital.
Shaare Zedek Hospital officials report the two victims are in very serious condition and are sedated and on a respirator and were moved to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital in Rishon L’Tzion where they were taken to the hyperbaric chamber.
It was later learned that one of the victims is a cook in the Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim, Kikar Shabbos News reports.
A son of the elderly cook told the news his mother was the one suffering from serious smoke inhalation.
He told the news outlet that the man extricated and transported along with his mother (the cook), suffered more serious smoke inhalation – since he was further inside and it took longer to get him out. The second victim is said to be a talmid at the Mir, originally from England. He assists the elderly woman.
The tzibur is asked to be mispallel for Sanam Chana bas Sarah and Yaakov David ben Elisheva for a refuah shleima bsoch cholei yisrael (סנם חנה בת שרה ויעקב דויד בן אלישבע)
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any updates on the victims?
They are still unconscious.
The tzaddik Rav Eliezer Berland shlit”a visited the choleh Yaakov Dovid last night at the request of the family, davened at his bedside and said that he will recover very soon without any damage.
Today the Dr’s have said that they will try waking him up soon.
While there, Rav Berland said tehillim at the women’s bedside as well.
Tens of thousands people have benefited from this man, from those who were in the Mir, those not registered in Mir legally who took anyway, and guys from brisk who weren’t supposed to take, without explicit permission.
It’s time that people in Israel and elsewhere fit smoke alarms just as every home in the UK has got them. They are inexpensive and can save lives.