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Woman dies and son, 4, hurt in Be'er Yaakov fire By Roni Singer-Heruti A woman was killed yesterday and her small son critically injured in a fire that erupted in a residential building in Be'er Yaakov. Firefighters pulled Mami Geta, aged 38 and her four-year-old son, Adam, out of the burning building in the central Israel town, after which Magen David Adom rescue teams tried in vain to resuscitate her. Advertisement Geta and her son were both severly burned and suffered from smoke inhalation. Several other residents were evacuated from the building unharmed. So far, the cause of the fire is unknown. Residents of Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Street in Be'er Yaakov called police, MDA and firefighters at about 3:30 P.M. yesterday to report a raging fire in one of the buildings on the street. Five fire trucks equipped with a crane arrived, as well as medical rescue teams and police. "We saw the flames bursting out of the building's windows and prepared to enter. When we opened the apartment's door, on the second floor, we were shocked by the fire's power," firefighters' commander Guy Mansherov said. "My men displayed real courage when they simply leaped into the giant flames," he said. The firefighters entered the smokefilled, burning apartment in search of trapped people. In the bedroom they found a woman lying unconscious. They took her out and an MDA medical team tried to resuscitate her in the stairwell. In another room they found a toddler, also unconscious, and a dead puppy in the bathroom. "The woman was brought out unconscious and with no pulse and placed in an intensive-care ambulance. The toddler also had no pulse and wasn't breathing. We started resuscitating him and after a long time managed to reinstate his heart beat," paramedic Shlomi Greitzer told Haaretz. The child was hospitalized in critical condition and is still not out of danger. The toddler's father stood under the building during the rescue operation, crying out to the rescue teams to save his wife and son. The couple immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia in 1992 and have been living in the Be'er Yaakov neighborhood since then. They have four children aged 18, 15, 8 and 4. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Auschwitz gimmick U.K. Tory chief draws fire for calling school visits to Auschwitz a gimmick. 5 Stops in Galilee Rock hares, peach orchards, a taste of the past, and walking the Jesus trail.

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