Firefighters managed to extinguish the fire that broke out at noon on Thursday at the Athenaeum Palace Hotel located on Syggrou Avenue.
According to information, the fire started on the first floor in a small kitchen with the flames burning two rooms and the smoke rising quickly to the upper floors.
The fire brigade has released 20 people so far. Seven people were trapped on a sixth-floor balcony. Three were released from the stairwell and two with the help of an external staircase: one from the 6th floor and the second from the 7th.
Of the people released, three were taken to Attikon. A 24-year-old is hospitalized with intubation due to inhalation burn, a 32-year-old with severe respiratory problems and a 25-year-old with fractures.
In fact, on the second floor there was a strong smell of oil.
At the scene, 35 firefighters attempted with 10 vehicles, which will remain at least until 2:30 pm in order to check the hotel room-by-room.
See the release of a woman:
Fire now at Athenaeum Palace on Syggrou Avenue - Woman asks for help to free herself from a balcony on the 3rd floor (vid) pic.twitter.com/aP3G12Rj1u
- Paris Kourtzidis (@ParisKourtzidis) December 5, 2019
EXCLUSIVE #PIPERATA_GR VIDEO: The moment of release by the men of the Fire Service, a female worker from the 3rd floor of the Athenaeum Palace in Syngrou Street who for an unknown reason was engulfed in flames (vid) pic.twitter.com/aP3G12Rj1u pic.twitter.com/m9VlbCm1JH
- Paris Kourtzidis (@ParisKourtzidis) December 5, 2019
"There was panic but we were trying to be calmer to calm the pellets… The fire broke out on the lower floors of the hotel but there was heavy smoke up to the seventh floor… Seven people were on the sixth floor, six hotel employees and a customer, 20-25 minutes to be released ", says a waiter of the hotel.
"There was panic but we were trying to be calmer to calm the pellets… The fire broke out on the lower floors of the hotel but there was heavy smoke up to the seventh floor… Seven people were on the sixth floor, six hotel employees and a customer, 20-25 minutes to be released ", says a waiter of the hotel.
Source: reporter