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. At the start of the afternoon, the fire was under control, according to information from the Parisian.
An investigation for “research of the causes of death” has been opened and entrusted to the department’s judicial police service, said the same source, specifying that it has for the moment “no precise information on the origin of the death”. ‘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 Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture 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 in a press release at the end of the morning. 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 in “absolute emergency”, but their “condition is stable”, said a spokesperson 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 remain mobilized, “said 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.
