The apartment is uninhabitable, completely destroyed by the flames… because of an electric garland decorating the Christmas tree.
The fire occurred during the night of December 24-25.
It was around 3 a.m. when the occupants of a dwelling on Avenue Henri-Barbusse, located on the seventh floor, rushed outside their home.
The light garland that adorned the tree had just burned down, which started a fire.
The fir tree caught fire then the fire grew until it invaded the whole apartment.
It seems that the garland was plugged into a multiple socket to which the television was also connected.
Four people poisoned by fumes
“There would have been a short circuit in the TV because of the connection of the garland, indicates a police source.
The fire spread throughout the apartment.
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Alerted around 3 a.m., the firefighters took an hour to put out the fire.
With about ten machines, about twenty men were mobilized to contain the fire.
Poisoned by the fumes, the four occupants of the apartment were taken to the Louis-Mourier hospital in “relative emergency”.
The victims had to be rehoused by the city.