An intense fire in a building Monday night in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), caused the death of five people, which could include a mother and her three children trapped by fire, a-t- we learned in the night from the firefighters.
It also deplores two serious injuries and nine minor injuries, including three firefighters. Tuesday morning, the search continued in the rubble and twenty firefighters were still on site. Dogs were to take part in the excavations, which were to continue until mid-day.
Firefighters managed to save six occupants in “difficult conditions” because the structure of the building s’ partially collapsed and armored doors have delayed their progress, said locally a spokesman for firefighters, captain Yvon Bot.
We do not know where is gone the fire, which broke around 19:30, mobilized 80 fire and was extinguished around 22:30. “There has been a collapse of the fourth floor on the third and the stairwell is still fragile,” explained in the evening a spokesman for the firefighters. The five victims were “found in the rubble of the building” and as they “strongly impacted by the fire,” it is “impossible to identify the state” still showed firefighters.
According to an employee of a nearby restaurant, interviewed on site by Le Parisien on Tuesday morning, victims may be members of a family living on the third floor and whose father would have jumped out the window to escape flames.
evidence of other neighbors and a person posing as a parent, specify that the victims were a mother and her three children, two girls aged 12 and 21 and a boy aged 15 and a friend of the mother. “One of the victims said his family had remained in the apartment” and the bodies found in the rubble “could be members of this family,” confirmed the prosecutor of Bobigny.
” we do not know where is gone the fire “, said in the evening the Deputy Mayor for Housing, Stephen Few, who had visited the site. He clarified that this relatively new four-storey building, located in the center of Saint-Denis, was “not rated unhealthy.” However, on Tuesday, neighbors questioned the condition of the building: “Inside, it was all rotten”
On the street side, the first and second floors of the building seem. intact and linen to dry the windows is visible Tuesday morning. By contrast, third-floor apartment where the family lived was completely destroyed and part of the 4th floor, the floor collapsed.
Resident 4th, Subash Rohilla was out when the fire started. His wife and three children were evacuated in time the building. According to him, the fire started in the kitchen of the apartment on the 3rd floor, facing the courtyard. The hypothesis of a kitchen fire is favored by locals who reported using cooking gas cylinders, sale-free in some grocery stores in the city, despite the ban.
the manager of the Tropical Briz, a Haitian restaurant on the ground floor, is in tears at the mention of the probable death of children. Collapsed, a resident of the building screams, “I’d tell them to get off, they did not listen to me!”
In the neighboring bar-PMU, anger and despondency prevail.. According to a customer who introduced himself as a friend of the father, it was “ten years” that the family, who lived in a “studio of 25 m2″ asked to be housed elsewhere. “It is the fault of the municipality. We have no right to let kids live in such squat. It was full of cockroaches and rats in there. “
Was this condominium housing 17 unhealthy? While residents have mentioned the presence of pests and pointed dirt from the backyard, the deputy mayor for Housing cut short the burgeoning controversy by claiming that the building, built in the 30s, n had not “been a notice of unfitness or unhealthy.” “It was not part of either the national program of requalification of degraded properties” enjoyed a certain number of houses in this area of the city center.
Marie Dominique, owner of the neighboring building, is not surprised by the incident. He says he sent numerous letters to the town about 6 rue Paul Eluard. For him, the building was clearly unsafe and did not meet the safety standards: no fire extinguisher, a yard full of rubbish and clearing pestilential odors, a door still wide open, etc. “But we do not know the owner, it is unreachable and so is the trustee,” says this resident.
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