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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 – Firefighters worked done the nighttime to extinguish a blaze that destroyed a 20-story flat gathering successful Milan, but said that determination was nary denotation that anyone was missing inside.

Some cases of fume inhalation successful were reported from Sunday's blaze, but nary superior injuries oregon deaths.

The occurrence was reported by a nonmigratory connected the 15th floor, who sounded the alarm arsenic helium descended the gathering telling different occupants to evacuate. Residents of the gathering included Italian rapper Mahmood, who was the 2019 victor of the San Remo euphony festival.

Residents said the blaze rapidly dispersed done the cladding connected the façade, which was expected to person been occurrence resistant, Corriere della Sera reported.

“The origin of the fires inactive needs to beryllium determined, but it seems that the accelerated dispersed of the flames was owed to the thermal covering of the building,’’ said Carlo Sibia, an Interior Ministry authoritative successful Rome.

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Mayor Giuseppe Sala, who visited the scene, said helium saw firefighters’ hands burned from battling the blaze.

Firefighters broke done doors flat by flat successful the hunt for anyone near wrong and followed up by telephoning residents who remained unaccounted-for. “There is nary grounds of anyone missing,” said commandant Felice Iraca.

Firefighters were continuing searches of the gathering and verifying harm to the structure. Prosecutors besides were investigating for immoderate denotation of wrongdoing.

The 60-meter (nearly 200-foot) gangly building, portion of a 2012 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.

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