A death in a fire at a building of the twentieth arrondissement of Paris – francetv info

One person died, Monday, February 22, during a fire in a building of the twentieth arrondissement of Paris, police said in francetv info. The fire broke out on the fifth floor of the building at 26 rue de Ménilmontant and was “mastered” by firefighters about two hours later.

the origin of the fire remains, for the moment, unknown. “the large black plumes of acrid smoke came out of the fifth floor window of building tells a riparian . There was smoke all over the street. it smelled strongly of burnt plastic. “

” firefighters arrived very fast, says an employee of the business located in front of the building. the police cut traffic on the street for intervention. It was pretty violent. ” In the neighborhood, a fire had already killed five people in 2011.