“Jumping was the only solution,” analyzes a witness to the tragedy.
Around this twelve-storey building on the Allée du Douanier Rousseau, in Alfortville, a scene froze some residents and onlookers with fear.
Shortly after 11:30 am, help was called because a fire was raging in an apartment located on the 3rd floor of this high-rise apartment building.
Very quickly, the flames spread and lick up to the facade, which quickly takes on a black gray tint.
The plume can then be seen from far away in this sector of Val-de-Marne.
Help arrives after the fall
If many tenants have time to leave and move away from the building, the 48-year-old woman who rents this 100 m2 apartment affected by the major blaze has no other choice but to seek salvation through the fire. 'outside.
Because fire is rapidly gaining ground.
It spreads through the facade to the upper floor.
When help arrives, the forty-something has already passed the railing of her balcony and threw herself into the void.
She was quickly transported to a nearby hospital, "in serious condition", we are told at the Paris fire brigade (BSPP), which also highlights "three lightly injured intoxicated by smoke" .
Terrible fire at the Grand Ensemble, I hope there are no injuries 😥🤲🏿 #Alfortville #incendie pic.twitter.com/uWfUTzjTYo
- 🦋! President of 94.🧛🏿♀️💋 * ++ (@ ahcia94) October 19, 2021
During this time, the virulence of the blaze quickly encourages the BSPP to increase the resources implemented. While some tenants join the Georges-Lapierre gymnasium, where they are welcomed and taken care of by the French Red Cross, others, kept at a distance by the police who close the neighborhood not without difficulty, assist in the operations. The fire was brought under control and then extinguished using two nozzles.
Very quickly, residents wonder about the origin of the fire, for the time being unknown.
"It may have started with a cigarette butt thrown on his balcony", launches an inhabitant of this building who, behind the rubalise stretched by the police, patient with his bag filled with food and his head. hypotheses.
"Me, I also find lots of cigarette butts on my balcony," continues another tenant, fulminating.
She will still have to arm herself with patience to reach her apartment and to know the end of the story.
