A fire broke out on the fourth floor of a residential building on Via Lepanto, a central street in Pompei, alarming passersby and residents after smoke was seen coming from the windows of an apartment.
Local police, State Police officers, and firefighters responded to the scene. According to the local report, their coordinated intervention contained the blaze and limited structural damage.
Early accounts point to a possible malfunction of a table lamp as the trigger, which may have set a nearby mattress alight. That cause remains a preliminary hypothesis rather than a confirmed finding.
Authorities were also checking the administrative status of a possible bed and breakfast operating in the apartment. It has not been confirmed whether the apartment was actually used as a bed and breakfast, nor what those checks will conclude.
The source report does not state whether anyone was injured or evacuated, nor the extent of the damage inside the apartment.
