Two people died in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday "probably intoxicated" by smoke during the fire of a building which broke out in Alfortville (Val-de-Marne) for an undetermined reason, he said. we learned on Wednesday from the firefighters.
Called around three in the morning for this fire which mobilized "significant resources", the emergency services discovered after having extinguished the flames at around 4.15 am that "two occupants of a disaster-affected apartment on the third floor, elderly people around 70 years, died probably intoxicated, "said Captain Valérian Fuet, of the Paris Fire Brigade.
These two people were "massaged by the firefighters, who unfortunately did not succeed in resuscitating them," he added. The fire, which it was still "too early" to know the origin, is now "under control", said Captain Fuet, adding that two rescues were carried out while the smoke had spread from the 3rd to the 7th and last floor.