It was an average Tuesday for Clayton Baldacchino, before a phone call changed the trajectory of not just his day but his living situation for the immediate future.
That panicked call to the 37-year-old came from his sister who informed him that his family home in a social housing block in Ħamrun, where he lives with his parents, was being engulfed in flames.
It actually was the apartment below the Baldacchinos’ home, in Triq Meltinone Scerri, that had caught fire.
But it was enough for the residents of the entire block of eight apartments to be evacuated – and it looks likely they will have to spend Christmas away from their homes.
A man was treated for smoke inhalation on Tuesday after a blaze in his apartment in Triq Meltinone Scerri, Hamrun.
The fire broke out in the early afternoon in the flat, part of a block of social housing. It was extinguished by fire-fighters of the Civil Protection Department.
The Social Housing Department said alternative accommodation had been offered to the tenants.
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