File Photo – Lehtikuva.
A middle-aged man was burnt to death when a fire broke out in a terraced house in Salo on Friday.
The rescue department was alerted to the terraced house located at Reväntie shortly before 2 am.
The fire which started from the bedroom badly damaged the house and the victim was the only resident.
“The neighbours did not notice the fire in time because the house did not have a functioning smoke detector,” said Knut Lehtinen, the chief fire fighter on duty,
Other residents of the terraced house were not evacuated and neither did the fire cause material damage to other parts of the terraced house.
It was not yet clear what caused the fire. The police are continuing with the inves-tigation.
