A fire broke out this Thursday evening shortly before 18 p.m. in a building in downtown Pontoise. An apartment on the 2nd floor of the six-floor building was completely ablaze when help arrived. The Val-d'Oise firefighters deployed four hoses, one of which on a ladder to bring the fire under control.
"The building was evacuated but two people are missing as emergency services began reconnaissance in the apartment. " An elderly couple, "says the mayor of Pontoise, Stéphanie Von Euw on the spot, while the personnel of the national police and the municipal police have cordoned off the quai du Pothuis during the intervention of the rescue.
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The town hall has set up a reception point at the Dome with the help of Red Cross teams to take care of the victims of the building during the evening. "About forty people are expected," says the mayor of Pontoise.
"When we arrived we were confronted with a fully developed fire," said the commander of rescue operations of the departmental intervention and rescue service (Sdis) 95. "We found a lot of broken glass on the roadway. This can potentially indicate that an explosion could be the cause of the disaster.
At 20 p.m., the balance sheet reported that two people were missing.
