Three flee as sauna fire hits Hämeenkyrö lakeside cottage

Three people escaped a sauna fire at a lakeside cottage in Hämeenkyrö just before midnight on Sunday, Tamperelainen reports. The Pirkanmaa Rescue Department was called to Pritsin shore road after the sauna in the leisure building caught fire and the occupants fled to a neighbouring cottage.

Rescue crews confined the fire to the sauna area. They dismantled structures across a few square metres while three rescue units checked that flames had not spread to the rest of the building.

The leisure building suffered heat and smoke damage. Police and the rescue department's fire investigators are examining how the fire started.

The rescue service has recently been called to several sauna fires in the region, including a blaze in Kumpula that was extinguished with no injuries the Kumpula blaze and a cottage fire in Teisko that killed a young man the Teisko fire.