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Smoke billows from a gathering successful Milan, Italy, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. Firefighters were battling a blaze connected Sunday that dispersed rapidly done a precocious restructured 60-meter-high, 16-story residential gathering successful Milan. There were nary contiguous reports of injuries oregon deaths. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

MILAN – Italian firefighters connected Sunday battled a high-rise blaze successful Milan that dispersed rapidly done a 20-story residential gathering and poured achromatic fume into the air. Residents were hurriedly evacuated.

Mayor Giuseppe Sala said determination were nary reports of injuries oregon deaths, but that firefighters were kicking down doors, flat by apartment, to marque definite determination were nary victims.

“We are definite that determination was clip to get out, but until the controls are finished, we cannot beryllium wholly sure," Sala told reporters astatine the scene. He said astir 20 radical were evacuated without incident.

The 60-meter (nearly 200-foot) gangly building, portion of a caller improvement project, was designed to look similar the keel of a vessel and included an aluminum sail connected its roof, which burned and fell to the thoroughfare successful pieces.

A immense plume of achromatic fume roseate from the reinforced factual gathering named the Torre dei Moro and was visibile for kilometers (miles). Flames continued to pain wrong astir 3 hours aft a twelve occurrence trucks and ambulances responded to the alarm.

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One firefighter told the Corriere della Sera paper that the blaze was inactive constricted erstwhile they arrived and firefighters were capable to get residents out. Within an hour, the flames had dispersed from the 15th floor, wherever the occurrence appears to person started, rapidly devouring the full facade of the building.

Unidentified residents told Corriere that the panels connected the facade were expected to person been fire-resistant.

Firefighters accidental the occurrence progressive a 20-story building. Plans for the task accidental it has 16 residential floors positive 2 underground.

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