- At least 10 people were killed and 11 injured in a fire at a small hotel, authorities in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre said.
- Rio Grande do Sul state’s fire brigade said the fire broke out in the three-story building early in the morning.
- The hotel was known for providing affordable housing for singles.
A fire ripped through a small hotel in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre early Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 11 others, authorities said.
Rio Grande do Sul state’s fire brigade said on social media that the fire broke out in the early hours of the morning in a three-story building that provided affordable housing for single people but was not properly licensed. There was also a lack of emergency fire plans, it said on social media.
Witnesses told local media that they managed to escape from the room at around 2 a.m. after the fire broke out, sprinting through smoke as flames approached.
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“I only had time to run in my flip-flops. My sister, who lived on the third floor, was burned to death in the end,” 56-year-old Marcelo Wagner Schelehi told the daily Zero Hora.
A fire gutted a small hotel in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 11 others, authorities said. (Silvio Avila/AFP via Getty Images)
Local authorities said nine of the 11 people rescued were hospitalized, five of them in critical condition. Porto Alegre Mayor Sebastian Melo said on his social media accounts that he was closely monitoring the investigation into the fire.
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The hotel, known as Galoa Floresta, is part of the Galoa Group, which has at least 10 small hotels in Porto Alegre. In 2022, a fire broke out at another hotel, killing one person and injuring 11 others.
