Ten people are confirmed to have died in a fire in an eight storey high apartment building in Paris. According to Le Monde is at least 30 people injured, of which one of them seriously.
Eight of these to be firefighters.
Paris is in mourning, writes mayor Anne Hidalgo on twitter. She writes that the city council of Paris will hold a minute’s silence at nine o’clock.
According to Le Monde got the fire department only after more than five hours of work control of fire. When was the clock over six Tuesday morning.
Woman arrested
Several media reports that the prosecutor in the Paris suspects a criminal act as the background for the fire, and that a woman is apprehended.
Many residents climbed onto the roof and out of windows to get away.
According to Emmanuel Grégoire, at the city hall in Paris, should the fire have broken out between the seventh and eighth floor 37 minutes after midnight, writes Le Figaro.
Paris est a deuil ce matin après le violent #incendie survenu dans un guarantee, you 16e arrondissement. Le bilan est terrible : au moins 7 Parisiennes et Parisiens ont perdu la vie, une trentaine d’entre eux sont blessés. #Paris16
— Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) February 5, 2019
Brannfolkene who came to the place was amazed at how quickly it evolved.
the Situation was already dramatic when brannfolkene came to the place, ” says Clement Cognon, a spokesman for the fire brigade in Paris.
More than fifty people have been evacuated from the block.
To the news agency AFP says Cognon that the number of injured and fatalities may increase, because the upper floors, where the fire raged heftigst, have not yet been crawled.
Boligblokka located in the 16. arrondissement of the French capital, which is a wealthy residential area.
FULL GUY: so it out while the fire raged in Paris on the night of Tuesday. Photo: NTB Scanpix/the Fire brigade in Paris Show more
The apartment building to be built in the 1970s. Two nearby blocks were, according to Le Monde evacuated as a precautionary measure.
Fear higher death toll
It began to burn in the building on the night of Tuesday, and in the 5-time Tuesday morning lit the fire that still burned in the 7. and 8. floor. The fire department fear that the number of dead may rise.
one of the injured, the condition is serious. The 27 others, including three firefighters, have received lighter injuries.
I would like to thank the brannfolkene who is fighting against the flames throughout the night and even once risked his life to save the parisians, writing, mayor Anne Hidalgo on twitter.
more than 20 residents had to go out through the roof of the building and seek refuge on the roofs of the neighbouring buildings, where the fire department came to their aid.
the apartment building is located in the street rue des petites ecuries, in the west of the city.
