US EditionOne in Three French Homes Becomes 'a Boiler' During Heatwaves
ISTRES AIR BASE, BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE, FRANCE, JUN 26 – The father faces manslaughter charges after leaving his son in a car during a southern France heatwave with temperatures reaching 36°C, officials said.
- A two-year-old boy died on Thursday after being left in a car at the Istres air base in southern France during a heatwave.
- This incident occurred amid an extended heatwave in southern France, with temperatures reaching 36C and warnings extended over the weekend.
- Poor housing insulation leaves one in three French homes vulnerable to extreme heat, turning apartments into unlivable “boilers” without proper sun protection or shutters.
- The proposed law will ban electricity cutoffs year-round, mandate a summer comfort score in housing ads, and allow tenants to demand landlords install sun protection, providing related financial aid.
- French MPs from seven parties plan to submit this bill addressing the ‘social, ecological and health emergency’ caused by overheating homes and rising heat-related deaths.
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One in three French homes becomes 'a boiler' during heatwaves
One in three homes in France is so poorly insulated it turns into a “boiler” during heatwaves, says the NGO La Fondation pour le Logement. The group found that 3,700 people died in France last summer because of extreme heat.
The mother of a two-year-old boy called desperately on Friday morning in Dornbirn (Vorarlberg) at the rescue and fire department and at the child's father. The reason: her filius was trapped in a car. Due to the heat he floated in danger of life. 11.45 h, the parcel Gütle in Dornbirn: The 34-year-old woman from the district Feldkirch had just put her son in the car, so the vehicle doors locked up. In addition to the son's husband also stupidly i…
Actually, according to the prosecutor's office, a man in France wanted to drop his son off at the daycare center, but then he parks his car at work - and the two-year-old stays in the car in heat.
(Paris=Yonhap News) Correspondent Song Jin-won = As the heat wave continues in France, a two-year-old boy died after being left in a car in broad daylight.
A 2-year-old boy has died in a car in a parking lot of an air base in southern France due to the heat. According to a public prosecutor, the father had forgotten the child. The father, who works at the Istres air base near Marseille, is suspected of manslaughter.
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