The incident took place on 8 January. Firefighters from Różyniec:
At 1:07 p.m. – we received a dispatch to a house fire in the town of Chojnów.
JRG 3 Chojnów about the incident:
(...) at approximately 12:00 we were dispatched to a fire in one of the single-family homes on Pogodna Street in Chojnów. Fifteen fire service units were dispatched to the scene from the rural municipality of Chojnów (...), the municipality of Miłkowice (...) and the municipality of Gromadka: OSP KSRG Różyniec.The rescue operation lasted more than three hours.
They added: – The fire first broke out in the garage, from there it spread to the roof and then to the residential part of the building. One person was injured. It was a man who suffered burns to his face and forearm. A medical rescue team also worked at the scene, providing assistance to the injured man and transporting him to hospital.