“Go ahead, go ahead, because they need to clean up there. Wait, wait.” People come and go one after the other on rue Peynier, although limited by security cordons. The colonel Félix Anténor-Habazac, director of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service of Guadeloupeexplains the current and future operations, after the big fire that occurred this Sunday.
The biggest thing to do will be the clearing. But first, as in any fire of this magnitude, there are still fumaroles, small returns of fire. People call us, we come. Everything has not yet cooled down and so it starts again automatically. So here, we are waiting for the green light from the judicial services so that the street can already be cleared
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There are many local residents on site who are curious to see the extent of the damage, as Emile.
There was a restaurant that was there, everything is gone. It hurts. At the start, we already had a big fire at a doctor’s house. And the fire happened again in his house. That’s life, that’s it
“Everything is in smoke”
Brunohe, a suitcase in hand accompanied by his wife, hastens to leave the place.
We had a little bit of luck among the others. We were able to recover some things, but there were some who really lost everything. That’s the building. It’s the one that burned completely, which is held, but the walls are really hot. In my opinion, I think it’s going to be destroyed because it’s taken so much heat that it’s not worth it. The CCAS has already relocated us. That’s very good, though. It’s a beautiful action.
Raymond and Jacques Fourrier, very bitter for their part, are feeling the blow, against a backdrop of being fed up with the fires which are tarnishing the city.
I returned to the scene of the “crime” to find out if I could access my house because everything was in smoke. And you know that I had a house across the street that burned down while there was still a facade. It really makes you wonder if there isn’t something chasing us. It is not possible. But it’s high time we did something to prevent this kind of thing.
Once again, time is a precious ally in dispelling the scars left by this new fire on rue Peynier.
This morning, EDF agents began operations to restore the electricity network as far as possible.
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