“Explosion and fire in an apartment building in Cieszyn. Part of the building collapsed. The rescue operation continues. It was necessary to evacuate neighboring buildings,” Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the Polish Ministry of the Interior, wrote on the X network, who also published photos from the scene. He later stated that the firefighters managed to get the fire under control and are putting it out.
More than 100 firefighters are on the scene. The rescuers will be able to enter the ruins of the building and search for two missing people after they manage to stabilize the remaining part of the building with regard to their safety, TVN24 station wrote. The spokeswoman of the local fire department, Aneta Golembiowska, said that practically the entire front part of the house collapsed.
According to the mayor of Cieszyn, Gabriela Staszkiewicz, gas probably exploded in the building, but the cause of the accident has not yet been confirmed. There were three apartments in the house, in which eleven people are registered. “Two people remain missing,” Staszkiewicz told the PAP agency. According to her, the fire spread to neighboring buildings, from which rescuers evacuated 17 people.
Glemboka Street, where the house collapsed, is about 400 meters long and leads from the main square of Cieszyna to the immediate vicinity of the border bridge with the Czech Republic, writes PAP.
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