Fire spokesman: Staff at Bnei Brak home abandoned elderly
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Staff members at a nursing home in Bnei Brak did not call the fire department to report a blaze that broke out at the facility on Saturday night and were not present when firefighters arrived on the scene, a spokesman for the Bnei Brak Fire Department told Army Radio on Sunday.Seventeen people were injured in the fire. Bnei Brak Fire Department Spokesman Hezi Tzafania said that "when the first teams arrived on the scene, they did not see any of the staff present. Nobody was there to direct them and give them an indication of how many elderly people were present. The staff must have escaped."Tzafania also charged that the nursing home did not possess the required fire certification. He stated that the home was not equipped with smoke detectors or fire extinguishers.
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