19.12.2010                     12.Tevet, 5771

Brand-Katastrophe:

Israeli firefighter dies of injuries sustained in Carmel blaze

Danny Hayat was burned on 65 percent of his body after trying to rescue prison service cadets from burning bus; his death marks the 44th person killed in the blaze.

A firefighter who was injured while trying to rescue people trapped in a burning bus during the Carmel wildfire earlier this month succumbed to his wounds on Saturday, marking the 44th person to have been killed as a result of the fire.
The fire burned for 77 hours and destroyed nearly 50,000 dunams of land in the Carmel region. Thousands of northern residents were forced to evacuate and over 250 homes were lost to the blaze….