“A little after 1 a.m., I heard a loud noise, a low rumbling.
I looked out the windows and there was white smoke, we couldn't see anything anymore, like in the images of September 11th.
I'm a little traumatized, the night was short,” confides Élisabeth, resident of rue Temponières in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), perpendicular to rue Saint-Rome, where a building collapsed during the night of Friday in SATURDAY.
It was evacuated on Tuesday March 5 due to a common wall which had collapsed.
Thierry, who lives on the same street, said he believed it was a fire.
“I went down to see if there was a fire.
The police were on scene within five minutes.
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“As the building was supported, we had confidence, we thought everything was under control.
My obsession was to know if people were underneath,” continues Élisabeth.
A fear quickly alleviated this morning by the firefighters who intervened on site.
Captain Stéphane Lévèque, one of the first on the scene, specifies: “The building was empty of any occupants, but the fear was of having passers-by under the rubble.
We carried out investigations using video surveillance cameras and dog teams, confirming that there were no victims.
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