Four people were evacuated due to a fire in a house in the Blagoevgrad village of Gabrovo, the mayor of the village, Borislav Khandzhiyski, told BTA. The fire broke out on Monday at around 7:30 p.m. in a house in one of the hamlets in the village. At the time of the fire, there were two adults in it. “The woman is motionless, the situation was serious, because the house is in a difficult-to-reach place, even on foot we had difficulty evacuating the people“, the mayor of Gabrovo also said.
“An elderly woman and a child from a house next to the burning house were evacuated due to the fire“, added Khandzhiyski. “The quick reaction of the firefighters and volunteers did not allow the fire to spread to the neighboring house“, he explained.
Firefighters, people from the village, as well as many people from neighboring villages and Blagoevgrad are involved in extinguishing the fire. “Gabrovo is a small village, I did not expect so many people to help“, emphasized Handzhiyski. He expressed gratitude to the fire department teams, to the volunteers and to the mayor of the neighboring village of Padesh – Alexander Stamenov, who until recently provided assistance in extinguishing the fire and transported the evacuated people to a place accessible to ambulances.