Ile-Saint-Denis: three dead in the fire of a building

A major fire on Ile-Saint-Denis, north of Paris, left at least 3 dead and 19 injured “relatively urgent”, announced on Saturday August 19 Isabelle Pantèbre, delegate prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis. One of the victims, a 13-year-old girl, was killed by jumping from her window. A survey for “cause of death investigation” was opened and entrusted to the departmental service of judicial police, indicated the parquet floor, which says not to have for the moment “no precise information on the origin of the fire”.

Nearly 200 firefighters mobilized

Rescuers fought for several hours before they managed to bring the fire under control. “The commitment of firefighters has try “, declared, during a press briefing, the spokesperson for the Paris fire brigade. “Eight rescues of people trapped on the floors” were made around the fifty homes affected by the fire, he added. A total of 60 vehicles and 195 firefighters were mobilized.

The apartment fire broke out around 10 a.m. It would have started from the 9th floor of the building, which has eleven. The town hall has set up a reception center at the Alice-Milliat gymnasium for survivors.

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