Cellar fire in Zurich triggers heavy smoke in the stairwell – TOP ONLINE
On Sunday evening there was a cellar fire in the city of Zurich on Wehntalerstrasse in district 11. According to the rescue workers, the fire could be extinguished, but there was heavy smoke in the stairwells.
The residents were therefore asked to stay in their apartments and keep the doors closed, a spokesman for Protection & Rescue Zurich told the Keystone-SDA news agency on request. There were no injuries, as the rescue organization announced in the evening in the short message service Twitter. There was also no damage to the apartments.
The stairwells of three connected apartment buildings were affected by the fire or the smoke, as the spokesman said. According to this, around 20 firefighters and additional personnel from the rescue service and the police were deployed.
Authorities were alerted to the fire around 8:15 p.m. The cause of the fire was unclear. Police investigation specialists.