US Edition4 Killed in Apartment Fire in Northeastern France's Reims City
- A fire erupted around midnight on Friday in an apartment on the fourth floor of a building located on Edgar Degas Alley in the Croix-Rouge area of Reims, in northeastern France, resulting in the deaths of at least four individuals, among them a child.
- Authorities have yet to establish the cause of the fire, and the investigation is still in progress; Reims Mayor Arnaud Robinet also clarified that the deceased individuals did not belong to a single family.
- The fire rapidly advanced to the building's upper floors, triggering a major response involving over 50 firefighters, the evacuation of numerous residents, and temporary shelter support coordinated with local emergency organizations and city services.
- Local officials and media reported that two individuals sustained critical injuries, 14 sustained minor wounds, one person leapt from the building, and two victims died due to cardiac arrest.
- Plurial Novilia, the social housing agency, is collaborating with local officials to secure temporary housing for those affected, while rescue crews continue site checks to confirm that no individuals are still trapped.
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A fire in a residential tower in Reims, in north-eastern France, cost the lives of at least four people, including a child, on Thursday night and an investigation was launched to establish the causes of the tragedy.
A fire, which occurred on the night of Thursday to Friday in an HLM building in Reims and whose accidental origin is "very likely", caused the death of four people and caused two serious injuries. ...
At least four people, including one child, died early this morning in Reims in the fire on a housing building in this northeastern city of France, where firefighters were still searching this morning for another minor of whom no trace has been found.The mayor of Reims, Arnaud Robinet, explained on the French Info station that, after the extinction of the fire, around 05.00 hours, the 45 apartments of the sinister building, which has 11 floors, w…
The firefighters have evacuated 14 wounded, two of whom are in critical condition, and for the time being the causes of the fire are unknown, which has occurred in an 11-storey block.
The fire broke out after midnight and a half at the fourth level of an eleven-storey housing tower, before spreading rapidly to the upper floors.
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