2023-08-19 15:04:54
A fire ravaged part of an apartment building in L’Ile-Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), August 19, 2023. STEFANO RELLANDINI / AFP
A building fire on Saturday August 19 in L’Île-Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), near Paris, resulted in the death of three people, including a 13-year-old teenager who threw herself out of the window, and injured several other people, according to a still provisional assessment established by the Bobigny prosecution. By early afternoon, the fire was under control, according to information from Parisian.
An investigation for “research into the causes of death” has been opened and entrusted to the judicial police service of the department, declared the same source, specifying that for the time being “no precise information on the origin of the fire”which broke out shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday morning.
Several residents of the building were intoxicated by the fumes. At 2 p.m., the toll had not been specified by the authorities. The prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis has scheduled a press briefing on site around 3 p.m.
A major rescue and fire-fighting system has been deployed, mobilizing 195 firefighters supported by 60 devices, the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture announced at the end of the morning. in a press release. The fire started from the ninth floor of a building in the Maurice-Thorez city which has eleven, said the firefighters of Paris. Two firefighters were hospitalized “absolute urgency”but their “condition is stable”said a spokesman for the fire department.
The mayor announced that he had set up a reception center for evacuees at a gymnasium in the city. ” We are at your service. The fire is still ongoing, we must all stay mobilized”, estimated the elected official in his message to the attention of the inhabitants, posted at midday. The prefecture has invited residents of the area not to open their windows.
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