Three children aged two, three and four, left without supervision, were evacuated from a burning house located in Raculesti village of Criuleni district. According to the preliminary version, the fire started after the kids played with fire.

Sources in the mayor’s office of Raculesti have told IPN that the children remained sleeping in the house after their mother went to work in the fields together with three elder children, while their father went through the village. The Civil Protection and Emergencies Service said the fire was localized in less than ten minutes. It destroyed partially the house’s roof and objects inside. The children were taken out by a neighbor and suffered no injuries.

At the beginning of August, three children, among whom a girl aged three, from Lipceni village of Rezina district suffered very serious burns when the house caught fire. The elder children, of eight and twelve, were admitted to the intensive care section.

Three children perished in fires in Moldova so far this year. The grownups are warned not to leave the children without supervision and to remove all the sources of fire, including matches and lighters, from the house. The dangerous objects must be kept in places that are inaccessible to children, especially those of preschool age who do not realize the dangers to which they expose themselves. The children must not be left unsupervised even for short periods, especially when there are such sources of danger as the stove and other domestic appliances in the room.

Information about how to protect the child in different situations can be found at www.parinti.md and following the awareness-raising campaigns, aimed at preventing home accident involving children, carried out by the Regionalization of the Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Services (REPEMOL) Project. The project is financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and is implemented by the Center for Health Policies and Services.