A child was rushed to hospital after a fire in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) on Tuesday afternoon. It was around 3:30 p.m. when black and toxic fumes invaded an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building, rue de la Motte.
The origin of the incident remains to be determined. According to the first observations, it could have occurred after a domestic accident.
Inanimate and curled up in linen
In the chaos, the parents of this young boy of about 5 years old did not manage to find their child in the apartment. A team of firefighters immediately went to find him.
"In very difficult conditions, with very little visibility, the child could be found in a corner of the apartment," said Commander Guillaume Fresse, spokesman for the Paris fire brigade. He was inanimate and curled up on himself under a pile of linen. Despite his young age, he had this reflex to protect himself. "
Rescued from the flames and extracted from the building, the firefighters managed to revive the young boy. The Samu 93 teams then took over and took the child to the hospital, under motorized escort from the police headquarters.
Her two parents, very shocked, were slightly intoxicated by the smoke. But their condition does not inspire concern.
