A vigilant passerby and particularly efficient rescuers allowed a 61-year-old man to survive the fire in his apartment on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Colombes, even though his condition was considered very serious when he was transferred to the hospital.
It was a few minutes past two in the morning when a passerby noticed smoke escaping from an apartment located on the ground floor of a building on rue Bouin, in the city center and raised the alarm. .
The firefighters intervened quickly, put out the fire and removed an inert body from the partially destroyed home.
The man is in cardiorespiratory arrest.
Every second is worth gold.
No burn marks
The sixty-year-old was immediately taken care of on site by emergency teams, including Smur de Beaujon.
It will take half an hour of cardiac massage and resuscitation for his heart to restart.
The victim was poisoned by the fumes but showed no signs of burns.
He was evacuated as an absolute emergency to the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Boulogne.
Specialists from the central laboratory of the police headquarters went to the scene of the fire.
According to initial findings, a cigarette fallen on the sofa where the occupant of the premises was could be the cause of this disaster.
The investigation was entrusted to the local police station.