On the night of Saturday November 26 to Sunday November 27, a fire in a twenty-storey building in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) caused four minor injuries and required the evacuation of a hundred people, learned the AFP at the town hall.
The incident, the origin of which has not yet been determined, broke out shortly before 11:30 p.m. in an apartment on the 15th floor of a building in the popular Coteaux district, south-west of Mulhouse.
A video posted online by the regional daily
L'Alsace
shows large flames coming out of the windows of an apartment.
Fifteen people will be relocated
About 60 firefighters were mobilized and quickly brought the fire under control, which required the evacuation of around 100 residents of the tower.
Twenty-four people inhaled the fumes and were examined on the spot by a medical team from Samu de Mulhouse.
Four of them, in relative urgency, were taken to hospital for examinations.
The top four floors of the tower are temporarily inaccessible.
About fifteen people have been taken care of by the municipality and will be relocated.
