A 61-year-old man was intoxicated by toxic fumes he breathed in this afternoon in a house fire in San Teodoro.

The alarm was raised around 4:30 p.m. when a passerby saw smoke coming out of a house on Via Toscana, alerting the firefighters who intervened with a team from the San Teodoro Summer Base. The causes of the fire that broke out inside the apartment where the 61-year-old was sleeping are still to be ascertained.

The firefighters intervened promptly, accessing the house and saving the man who was asleep at the time of the fire and was at risk of dying due to the toxic gases.

Taken outside, he was handed over to the 118 staff for subsequent transfer to the hospital. Subsequently, the fire was extinguished and the apartment was secured. The local police were also present on site.