{"id":26012,"date":"2021-02-04T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=158391"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:13:03","slug":"fire-kills-four-people-at-covid-19-hospital-in-southeastern-ukrainian-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/04\/fire-kills-four-people-at-covid-19-hospital-in-southeastern-ukrainian-city-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Kills Four People At COVID-19 Hospital In Southeastern Ukrainian City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bb771a13-c7eb-43f3-979b-bb6146672097_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>ZAPORIZHZHYA, Ukraine &#8212; A fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Ukraine&#8217;s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya has <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosvoboda.org\/a\/news-pozhezha-zaporizhzhia-provadzhennia\/31085480.html\">killed four people<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The regional police directorate told RFE\/RL on February 4 that a probe has been launched into the deadly blaze overnight that took the lives of three patients and a nurse.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, two other patients were hospitalized with burns,<\/p>\n<p>The Zaporizhzhya regional administration said that a special commission will be formed to look into the tragedy, adding that all hospitals treating COVID-19 patients will be inspected for fire safety in the immediate future.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly fires caused by violations of safety regulations or faulty wiring are common in former Soviet republics.<\/p>\n<p>On January 21, a fire at an unregistered nursing home in Ukraine&#8217;s eastern city of Kharkiv <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-15-killed-nursing-home-fire\/31062001.html\">killed 15 people<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/04\/fire-kills-four-people-at-covid-19-hospital-in-southeastern-ukrainian-city\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAPORIZHZHYA, Ukraine \u2014 A fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Ukraine\u2019s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya has killed four people. The regional police directorate told RFE\/RL on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,106,376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26013,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions\/26013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}