The victims were found on the landing of their apartment. The firefighters tried in vain to give them heart massages. But it was too late. Two people died in a fire that occurred overnight Tuesday to Wednesday in Alfortville, we learned from concordant sources. According to a police source, it is a 99-year-old woman and her 73-year-old son.
The alert was given at around 3 am by one of the occupants of this seven-story building located on Place Salvador-Allende. A fire is ravaging an apartment of around 70 m2 on the third floor.
Many people manage to evacuate their homes. But the flames are already licking the upper floors. "This is what made the intervention perilous," said a firefighter. Tenants find themselves trapped. The Maisons-Alfort barracks quickly arrived on site. Many reinforcements are called. In total, nearly a hundred firefighters are deployed.
Two people saved
Two people stranded in their apartment are saved by the firefighters. "People had the reflex to remain confined inside which made it possible to get them alive," said a firefighter. What the son and his mother couldn't do. The fire was extinguished this Wednesday around 5 am.
According to a police source, four fire soldiers were slightly intoxicated during this intervention.
According to the same source, the origin of the fire is for the time being undetermined. The departmental service of the judicial police is seized of the investigation.