The balance of the heavy fire in an apartment block in Paris has risen to ten dead. That has the newspaper Le Parisien message. 36 others were injured, one of whom is in critical condition. Among the fatalities would be a “child of very young age”. The fire department stresses that it is still a “provisional” balance sheet. A resident of the building is in the interest of the research is taken into custody (“garde à vue”). Among the injured are also six firefighters.
The fire is about 01.00 am for a reason still unknown origin and was “incredibly violently”, quoted the newspaper Le Parisien the fire brigade. After more than five hours were just about 250 spuitgasten the fire master, all were raging there are still flames on the seventh and eighth floor. The devastating fire originated on one of the upper floors, especially the seventh or the eighth, the highest of the building that, according to station France Info in the seventies is built.
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The property and a number of adjacent buildings on Rue Erlanger in the 16th arrondissement in the west of Paris were evacuated. Some residents were to the roof fled, others were shouting through the window for help. The police and fire department blocked several streets. The capacity is very difficult.
