Metropolitan Fire Department

The condition of the worker injured in the collapse of a roof at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) remains serious, BNT reported. The roof section, along with photovoltaic panels, collapsed on him, leaving him with multiple internal injuries. According to "Pirogov" Hospital, where he is being treated, the worker faces a series of operations.

Following the heavy rain and hailstorm in Sofia, Mayor Vasil Terziev reported that the city received 230 distress calls to emergency services and 34 signals at the Metropolitan Municipality's contact center.

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) predicts torrential and quite intense rains in the western part of the country for the next three days.

Total quantities of more than 100 liters per square meter are expected, according to the on-duty forecaster Anastasia Stoycheva, BTA reported.

A woman died, a child of one year and 7 months and a child of 12 years were hospitalized after a fire in the "Central" hotel in Sofia. Their condition is stable, without danger to life. The identity of the dead woman is being clarified.

Some 36 women, who finished their five-month training, will begin service at the Metropolitan Fire Department next week, becoming Istanbul's first female firefighters.

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"We will show that Turkish women exist in firefighting, too," Hakan Karabulut, the deputy of Firefighting Training Center (İBİTEM), told the Demirören News Agency.