A fire brigade ambulance.

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E.Frisullo / 20 Minutes

A plan worthy of the great escape.

A 65-year-old woman, living in a retirement home in Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne (Ain), suddenly fled from her establishment on Saturday evening, escaping behind the wheel of a fire truck.

The sixty-year-old took advantage of an emergency response to take flight, reports

Le Progrès

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She got into the fire engine, too busy looking after other residents to see that she had boarded to get home.

However, she was pursued for nearly half an hour before being arrested and taken to Villefranche-sur-Saône hospital.

Miscellaneous

Lyon: Home-jacking in an elderly couple, the victims tied up

Miscellaneous

Guingamp: A grandmother slips away from the retirement home in a walker

  • Lyon

  • evasion

  • Leak

  • Retirement home

  • Firefighters

  • Miscellaneous

  • Society