During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the Tarn firefighters were called to a fire in a building located near Boulevard des Lices, in the town of Castres. As indicated by our colleagues on the site Actu.frthe fire started in an apartment located on the second floor, around five in the morning.
Quickly arriving on the scene, the Tarn Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis 81) began by evacuating the 15 tenants of the building so that the intervention could take place calmly and without danger.
Man taken to hospital
During the intervention, the emergency services quickly discovered the cause of the fire: food which had been left on the fire unattended. Fortunately, there were no casualties during this fire. Only a 34-year-old man was treated and taken to the nearest hospital. The latter had smoke inhalation and underwent a complete assessment once on site.
As for the other tenants of the building, they were all able to return to their homes just a few hours after the evacuation. Indeed, once the premises were properly ventilated so that the smoke could escape, there was no longer any danger.
