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Research is underway on rue du 10 April, in the Marengo sector, to find out if any occupants were in this abandoned and poorly maintained house whose first floor collapsed.
Dozens of firefighters are on site and a large device is deployed at the foot of the José-Cabanis media library in Toulouse. A one-story house, located on rue du 10 April, collapsed during the night, around 5 a.m. This building, which is located at the bottom of a courtyard, had been abandoned for a long time.
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Around sixty firefighters were on site, with numerous vehicles and a command post. They deployed extensive resources, including dog guards and drones, to check that no one was under the rubble. Because according to neighbors, this house has sometimes been squatted. After several visits by the dogs who had not sniffed any odors, the risk of having victims seemed to have passed.
-Building risk specialists from the departmental fire and rescue service are on site, as are those from the town hall. Four neighboring buildings and their ten occupants were evacuated. “A diagnosis to assess the fragilities of neighboring buildings is underway. The building which collapsed was not maintained,” explains François Chauvet, the director of population protection at Toulouse town hall. An order will be issued as soon as this diagnosis is made.
In the meantime, access to the area was cut off and will be cut off until the firefighters' work is completed.
