Four people, including two minors, were overcome by fumes after a fire broke out in a residential building in Granada.
The fire started on the third floor of Edificio Jaima in calle Alcala la Real, the cause of the blaze being a cigarette butt dropped on an armchair. The occupants tried to put out the fire but couldn’t and called the Fire Brigade. They then vacated the apartment but left the door open, which meant that thick smoke permeated through the building.
It was the thick smoke which affected a family in another apartment, four people needing hospital treatment, one of them an eighteen month old baby.
The Fire Brigade evacuated the building, although some residents had already left their homes, and set about the task of extinguishing the fire. The residents were allowed back into their homes some three hours later.