A large explosion occurred on Friday January 22 around 6.30 p.m. in an apartment in Vitry-sur-Seine after a woman put methylated spirits and charcoal in her oven,
Le Parisien
found
.
Six months pregnant, the latter was, according to the last I heard, between life and death.
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Friday evening, this woman who lives in a large social housing complex on Avenue Lucien-Français would have decided to transform her oven into a barbecue, introducing methylated spirits and charcoal.
A highly flammable cocktail which caused a large explosion.
If the fireball did not cause a fire, it seriously injured the resident who is burned all over his body, according to
Le Parisien
.
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The victim's brother-in-law, also present in the apartment at the time of the accident, was also injured, but less seriously.
He was burned on the hands and calves and was slightly intoxicated by the smoke, specifies
Le Parisien
.
The firefighters took care of the two injured before transporting the mother-to-be in an emergency and in serious condition to Saint-Louis hospital in Paris (10th).
The brother-in-law was admitted to the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital (94).
Methylated alcohol is
"an extremely volatile liquid,"
recalled the Paris fire brigade (BSPP) to the
Parisian
.
"When placed in a confined space like an oven, as soon as the activation energy arrives, it will create a fireball
.
"