An investigation is opened to know the origin of the disaster. A 48-year-old disabled man was found dead in a house fire in Somain, in the north. When help arrived, the victim's home was "totally on fire," according to the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis).
It is a couple with two children who lived in the burned home. According to a police source, the neighbor, alerted by the cries, intervened before the arrival of the firefighters to save an 11-year-old boy, trapped in the flames on the 1st floor.
"The neighbor took the child out of the burning house"
"He first tried to extinguish the body of the burning husband with a blanket but was unable to do so," said the police officer. He went out. Outside, the mother told her that her 11-year-old son was in her bedroom upstairs. He returned home to take a ladder and go up to the window which he barely broke. He managed to take the child out of the burning house. "
The handicapped father died. However, his wife and daughter were able to extricate themselves from the blaze in time. The four survivors, including the two adolescent victims of light poisoning, were transported to the hospital for examinations.
The extinction of the fire required the implementation of three water lances, including one on a ladder, emphasizes Sdis to illustrate the extent of the blaze.
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