Overview

• The fire began early on August 18 with a flare-up in the kitchen of a second-floor flat on viale Cadore in Rivalta di Torino and spread to an upstairs attic within minutes.
• A nearby security guard rescued 67-year-old Giancarlo Magnarello, who was hospitalized with smoke inhalation and remains in stable condition.
• Firefighters later extracted 29-year-old Eleonora Magnarello, who was airlifted to the CTO hospital in Turin and died after arriving in cardiac arrest.
• The household had been monitored for chronic hoarding, and investigators are examining whether accumulated materials helped the fire spread in a district that has seen several serious apartment blazes in August.
• Authorities have declared the apartment and attic uninhabitable and seized the site pending technical and criminal investigations into the blaze’s origins.