A 74-year-old man died in a fire in a house in the Dobrich village of Opanets, the General Directorate of Fire Safety and Population Protection announced.
The fire incident was reported on Friday at 07:57 at the Dobrich fire department.
The deceased was disabled, BNR specifies.
The cause of the fire was a short circuit in the electrical installation.
Over the past 24 hours, fire departments have extinguished 82 fires and responded to 106 reports of accidents.
On Friday at 00:14 at the Dobrich Fire Department – Plovdiv received a report of a gas cylinder explosion in a house in the town of Saedinenie, Plovdiv region.
A 72-year-old woman was injured in the incident, who suffered burns. The cause of the incident was a technical malfunction of a gas cylinder.
20 fires occurred with direct material damage, of which 10 were in residential buildings.
62 fires occurred without material damage.
19 rescue activities and assistance operations were carried out.