Image: APA
However, her 26-year-old neighbor heard the alarm and alerted the police just before 5 p.m. When police officers arrived, they noticed a burning smell in the stairwell, the police said. The officials were able to get into the heavily smoky apartment via a deposited apartment key. The 70-year-old sat in the living room. She hadn’t noticed the alarm and the smoke, but had already suffered from smoke inhalation. The police officers and immediately took her outside.
The woman may have forgotten food on the stove. Packaging material and food caught fire in a pot and began to glow. The pensioner was admitted to the Kepler University Hospital.
Source: Nachrichten