Europe 1 with AFP 10:23 a.m., December 24, 2022
Two children died early Saturday morning in the fire of a house in Selles (Eure) where they were with their family to spend the end of year celebrations, we learned from the prefecture of Eure.
Two children died early Saturday morning in the fire of a house in Selles (Eure) where they were with their family to spend the end of year celebrations, we learned from the prefecture of Eure.
A 12-year-old girl evacuated to a Paris hospital
The victims, a girl about 8 years old and a boy about ten years old, had not been able to get out of the burning building and were in cardio-respiratory arrest when the firefighters managed to evacuate them.
A third child, also in cardio-respiratory arrest, was revived.
The young girl, aged about twelve, was evacuated to a Paris hospital "in absolute urgency".
In total, five adults and five children, four generations of the same family reunited for Christmas, were in this second home near Pont-Audemer, said AFP Isabelle Dorliat-Pouzet, secretary general of the prefecture of the 'Eure.
Five adults and two other children were able to get out of the building in time
The five adults and two other children were able to get out of the building in time, including the nonagenarian great-grandmother, said Ms. Dorliat-Pouzet.
The firefighters were alerted to the incident around 3:45 a.m. and arrived quickly on the scene, but the fire was already very advanced and the Norman farmhouse was engulfed in flames.
An investigation has been opened to determine the causes of the fire, which "remain unknown at this stage", added Ms. Dorliat-Pouzet.