A three-year-old girl perished in a fire at a vacation home in the Western Galilee Monday morning.
The fire broke out in a cabin the ecological village of Adama. Four firefighting teams were dispatched to the scene to combat the blaze, and managed to contain the fire after two-and-a-half hours.
Firefighters who arrived at the scene found the girl's lifeless remains in her bedroom. Rescue teams also found the girl's mother, who suffered serious injuries, while her father was moderately injured.
Authorities identified the victim as Libby Kalich of Petah Tikva, who was vacationing in the Galilee with her family for the holiday.
MDA teams that arrived at the scene declared the girl's death. The teams provided medical treatment to her mother, Lital Kalich, 44, in critical condition who was evacuated by MDA helicopter to Rambam Hospital. The father, 45-year-old Tomer Kalich, in moderate condition, was evacuated to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
The family's other child, six-year-old Alon Kalich, was unharmed.
Investigators have opened a probe into the cause of the fire.
MDA senior paramedic Hasiv Shahada and MDA paramedic Shalom Tikoshvili said that when they arrived at the scene, they saw that "a boy about six years of age had left the house uninjured. There was a man and a woman suffering from burns, and after they recovered from the smoke inhalation, they told us that a three-year-old girl was sleeping in the house."
"The fire was still burning and we could not enter the house. Once the firefighters arrive, they extinguished the fire and we could go into the house the girl was taken out, but she had no vital signs and unfortunately we had no choice but to declare her death."