isaac jabbazthe father of the Jewish family who lived in the apartment that caught fire in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoletawhere five of its members diedwas discharged this Sunday, informed Télam sources from the Anchorena Sanatoriumfrom the Buenos Aires city of San Martín.
According to the sources, “he retired early” after being interned in that sanatorium 18 daysafter being transferred from the Rivadavia Hospital on June 23 with facial burns and conditions in your respiratory systemwhile trying to rescue his family.
His wife died in the fire that broke out that day. sophia kabudi and his sons Rafi Jabbaz3 years old; orly jabbazfrom 7; Esther Jabbaz9 and Camila Jabbazof 19.
Meanwhile, another 23-year-old son of the couple had been discharged the same day of the fire, after spending a few hours under observation in the hospital. Rivadavia Hospital with “an oxygen therapy treatment” in a hyperbaric chamber.
How the events happened
The fire started at 5:50 a.m., in the apartment on the seventh floor of the Ecuador 1026 building, near Córdoba Avenue, while its occupants were sleeping and quickly spread to the upper floor, forcing the evacuation and rescue of all the occupants of the 14 floors.
As a result of the incident, 31 people had to be assisted and forced to deploy a large operation with eight firefighters and 22 SAME ambulances to control the flames and rescue the affected neighbors.
The day after the tragedy, prosecutor Sebastián Fedullo, in charge of the investigation of the fire, had confirmed that “the source of the fire was the lithium batteries of a skateboard that was in the living room” according to the preliminary report made by fire experts.
The five members of the family were dismissed with a religious ceremony at the temple and the Jafetz Jaim school of religious studies, and then buried in a cemetery in Lomas de Zamora.
