Apartment fire in Karabük sends two people to hospital with smoke inhalation
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- Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a third-floor apartment of a five-story building in Karabük.
- Authorities evacuated residents as two people, aged 93 and 62, received hospital treatment for smoke inhalation.
- Officials began investigating the cause of the fire.
A fire in a third-floor apartment in Karabük sent two residents to hospital after they were affected by smoke.
The fire broke out around 11 p.m. in an apartment belonging to Sedat K. at Huzur Apartmanı on 115th Street in Bahçelievler district. Firefighters, medical teams, police and AFAD responded after receiving the report.
Residents left the five-story building as a precaution. Medical teams treated Mustafa T., 93, and Fethi D., 62, at the scene before taking them to hospital.
Firefighters brought the blaze under control and extinguished it. Authorities opened an investigation to determine how it started.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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