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Montevideo<\/strong>: All ten elderly residents of a Uruguayan nursing home died Sunday after an early-morning fire from which the lone caretaker was the only person to escape.<\/p>\n Eight women and two men died from the blaze at the six-roomed facility in the city of Treinta y Tres in the South American country\u2019s east, according to an official statement.<\/p>\n Firefighters found the main entrance shuttered on their arrival, it added. Once inside, they found a fire in the living room with smoke having spread throughout the facility.<\/p>\n A 20-year-old caretaker had managed to get out safely through a garage, said the statement.<\/p>\n Seven of the residents died on the scene from smoke inhalation, while three others were rushed to hospital in a critical condition, but did not survive.<\/p>\n The incident came just ten days after a fire at another nursing home for the elderly and people with psychiatric disorders in the city of Melo, also in Uruguay\u2019s east.<\/p>\n In that case, a 77-year-old man and a 72-year-old woman died in hospital after they were evacuated with 40 other residents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Montevideo: All ten elderly residents of a Uruguayan nursing home died Sunday after an early-morning fire from which the lone caretaker was the only person to escape. Eight women and two men died from the blaze at the six-roomed facility in the city of Treinta y Tres in the South American country\u2019s east, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1720415219_download-11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33678,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33676\/revisions\/33678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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