Five perish in fire near Poznań

A fire in a multi-family home in the village of Ryczywół, just north of Poznań, killed a mother and four of her adult sons early Saturday morning, while another person escaped injury by jumping out of a window. Fire brigade Captain Dariusz Szrama told TVN 24 television news that the fire had started in the stairwell, and smoke that spread to the adjacent bedrooms likely caught the victims off guard. “We can only assume that [at] other time of day, anyone would have noticed the fire and intervened. Night time had a dramatic impact on the balance of the event,” he explained. Reportedly, it took seven brigades until five o’clock in the morning to completely extinguish the fire, which had started at 11 p.m. on Friday evening. The captain did not speculate on the cause of the fire.