Police, firefighters control blaze in Acre apartment building

Unidentified persons threw ignited tires into the stairwell of a residential building on Acre's Rehov Ha'aron Thursday morning. Firefighters and police rescued a woman from a flat on the third floor of the building, and controlled the blaze. Police opened an investigation into the incident, and said the matter was of a criminal nature, and not related to last week's unrest.