Mechelen, A violent fire destroyed early Saturday mornings in a house in the Sint-Jan-Berchmansstraat in Mechelen. The resident could be on time to leave home, but his dog died in the flames. The cause of the fire is not yet known.
“Saturday morning around 4 am, my roommate woke up by a slight smell of smoke. But since there after a walk-through of our house with nothing to see or to hear was, we went back just to sleep. More than an hour later, we heard suddenly our neighbor in a panic call standing on the street. His house was ablaze, we called immediately the fire,” says neighbor Stefanie Osei.