Around 200 residents were evacuated after a fire broke out in a nursing home on Gordon street in Hadera on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Israel Fire and Rescue Services reported. Two residents were lightly injured.
The nursing home is a nine-story building and provides 198 apartments for residents and staff.
After an initial look at the building, a fire inspector deduced that the fire began in the basement area and spread from there to the rest of the building.
Medical teams from the Hadera, Harish, Zichron Ya’acov and Netanya branches of United Hatzalah assisted the fire crews in transporting dozens of the nursing home’s residents to alternative shelters until their return to the home was possible.