Overview
- The kitchen blaze in an eighth-floor Recoleta apartment Monday morning left a 92-year-old resident dead, according to emergency services.
- Neighbors knocked down the first flames before fire crews arrived, based on official accounts reported by local outlets.
- Firefighters said the fire began in the kitchen and found the woman unconscious, and SAME confirmed her death at the scene while four others received on-site care without hospital transfer.
- The building sits on Juncal Street, though local reports differ on the number as 2850 or 2847 and officials have not clarified it.
- The City’s fire and explosion investigation office is examining the apartment to determine the precise origin and cause of the fire.