Fear in Furtei: a cylinder catches fire, the caregiver burns herself to save the elderly woman she looks after

A woman suffered burns to her arms from a fire that broke out while changing the cylinder of a gas stove.

The accident took place this morning in the home of a pensioner from Furtei . In addition to the woman - who works as a caregiver and for whom hospitalization was ordered due to the burns she sustained while carrying the flaming cylinder into the courtyard to avoid the worst - the landlady and her daughter also had to resort to treatment of doctors for intoxication caused by the smoke that invaded the kitchen.

On the spot carabinieri, firefighters and 118.