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Man Fell Asleep with Cigarette: Mattress Burned

Summary by Kronen Zeitung
Because a man (59) had fallen asleep with a cigarette in his hand, the Mayrhofen fire brigade (Tiroler Bezirk Schwaz) had to leave on Thursday. The mattress caught fire, a roommate could prevent worse in time with a garden hose.

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Because a man (59) had fallen asleep with a cigarette in his hand, the Mayrhofen fire brigade (Tiroler Bezirk Schwaz) had to leave on Thursday. The mattress caught fire, a roommate could prevent worse in time with a garden hose.

·Vienna, Austria
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A 59-year-old fell asleep on Friday night with a cigarette in his hand in his bed in the basement apartment of an apartment house in the Tyrolean Mayrhofen (Bezirk Schwaz). As a result, the mattress got on fire, the police reported. A 25-year-old roommate of the man noticed the fire in time and extinguished it with a garden hose. The two were sent to the hospital Schwaz with suspicion of flue gas poisoning.

A burning cigarette caused a small fire on Thursday evening in Mayrhofen. A 59-year-old had fallen asleep in the basement of an apartment house with the cigarette in his hand around 11 p.m., causing his mattress to burn.

A 59-year-old fell asleep with a burning cigarette in his hand on Thursday around 11 p.m. A little later his mattress was in flames. The fact that the fire did not spread further owes him to his roommate. The incident occurred in a basement apartment of an apartment house in Mayrhofen, where other guests were accommodated. According to the police, the 25-year-old roommate noticed the fire in time and reacted immediately. He grabbed a garden hose…

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5min.at broke the news on Friday, October 23, 2026.
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