5-year-old boy injured in fire dies

Doctors who fought for two weeks for the life of five-year-old Charalambos, who suffered in a fire in Kolonos, could not save him – the baby died.

Initially, it was reported that firefighters found the child dead. However, it turned out that he was unconscious, and in the Attikon hospital, doctors began to fight to save him. Unfortunately baby couldn’t survive. His funeral will take place on December 13 at 3 pm in the church of St. George in Neohori Killini, as the boy’s parents are from Elijah.

Our publication told that a fire broke out Sunday evening in an apartment on the second floor on Alkionis Street. At that moment, there were three children in the house – 5, 7 and 12 years old – and their father, who fell asleep after returning from picking olives. He woke up, hearing the calls of his seven-year-old son for help, and saw that the apartment was full of smoke.

Neighbors called the fire brigade, and 15 firefighters in five vehicles arrived at the scene. They managed to cope with the fire quickly, but the youngest of the children was in an extremely serious condition, he was taken out of the house unconscious. Before the arrival of the ambulance, one of the neighbors tried to resuscitate him by giving a heart massage. The ΕΚΑΒ doctors who arrived took the baby to the ATTICO hospital, and the older children, for preventive purposes, to the Αγία Σοφία hospital.

The father, who was found with two other children near an apartment building, told firefighters that he was resting because he had been working all day. However, information from the police indicates that he was in a state of extreme intoxication. baby father categorically rejects suspicion that he was drunk. He testified to the police about the incident:

“I have 5 children, one 22 years old from my first marriage and four from my second wife. The baby was in his crib, my wife put him to bed. I stayed up all night working in a taxi, and in the morning I went for olives in Agios Stefanos and Oropos. I was very tired, took insulin for sugar and fell asleep. It’s a lie that I was drunk. Until they said the baby was dead. I fought to save the child. The door was locked because my wife locks it to keep the baby from leaving and to protect herself from burglars. My wife and neighbor broke down the door, couldn’t get through the front door, suffocated from the smoke.”

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