Illustration of the Bas-Rhin firefighters in Strasbourg. Strasbourg February 11, 2015 - Gilles Varela / 20 Minutes

The emergency services could not save her. On the night of Saturday to Sunday, shortly after 2 a.m., a 90-year-old woman died in the fire at her apartment in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, in the Bas-Rhin. More precisely in a small four-storey residence, route de Lyon, indicates in a report the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service of Bas-Rhin (SDIS 67).

The firefighters had been alerted by the neighborhood who heard the alarm from the smoke detector. Despite the intervention of the firefighters who quickly extinguished the fire with a lance, the nonagenarian, who was found inside the accommodation, could not be saved and the emergency doctor declared her death. . According to initial information, the fire is of accidental origin.

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  • Miscellaneous
  • Accident
  • Strasbourg
  • The elderly
  • Fire