Fire breaks out at major Budapest university, one person seriously injured
A fire broke out early Thursday morning in a laboratory at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, leaving one man seriously injured.
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) has launched an investigation into the circumstances of the fire, in cooperation with the disaster management authorities, the university’s communications directorate told MTI.
According to their information, a fire broke out in the surface physics laboratory early Thursday morning during the cleaning of a vacuum equipment. The fire was immediately reported and the BME security staff rushed to the scene, extinguished the fire, gave first aid to the staff member working in the room and alerted the ambulance.
The employee who was seriously injured in the fire is being treated in hospital, 24.hu writes.
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