Ichud Hatzalah reports there were numerous apartment fires in Bnei Brak during Simchas Torah. One fire was in a home on Ezra Street. Firefighters were Baruch Hashem successful in pulling out a number of people trapped in the apartment. The apartment building was evacuated until the blaze was extinguished.

A short time later firefighters were summoned to an apartment fire on Damesek Eliezer Street and yet another blaze on Hoshea Street. During the morning hours of Yomtov a fire broke out in the fourth floor of a building on Maimon Street near the Alexander Yeshiva. There was another fire during the afternoon on Tzfas Street.

B�chasdei Hashem there were no reports of loss of life or injuries in any of the fires.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Posted Motzei Simchas Torah in Eretz Yisrael)