a child saved by firefighters following an apartment fire

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It was 12:40 a.m. during the night of Monday December 2 to Tuesday December 3, 2024 when emergency services were dispatched for a fire broke out in a building of seven floors on rue des Aubépines, in Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d'Oise).

Eight victims hospitalized

For a reason that the investigation must determine, a fire broke out in an apartment located on 2^e floor. Although around twenty residents had evacuated the building before the firefighters arrived, they rescued one child who was stuck at 3^e floor. The young victim, whose age or sex was not specified, escaped unharmed while eight people were taken to urgence relative from the Gonesse hospital after being slightly poisoned by the fumes.

At the same time, firefighters deployed two water hoses to put an end to the disaster which required the intervention of nine engines and 35 firefighters.

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