“I was going to shower, it was the neighbors who came to tell me to get out of the house. » Carole Vanwanmbeck keeps smiling despite the circumstances. His garage, like that of his neighbor, went up in smoke. Part of the house, located 13 rue Léon-Duguit, in Libourne, is blackened. At number 11, the tenant’s bedroom, like the bathroom, are also impassable. As for the garage, it’s just a pile of burned piles. The smells still sting the nose throughout the neighborhood.
Smoke visible from afar
It was 1:15 p.m. when a passerby alerted the emergency services. At 2:25 p.m., the fire was contained. The disaster, apparently accidental, would have started from one of the garages. The smoke, black and visible from afar, quickly raised questions on social networks. The first house was empty. “We were going to a birthday party in the Médoc, it was my sister who warned me,” says Matthieu, who lived there with his parents. “They have lived here for twenty-five years. They lost everything. » Rehousing solutions have been found, either by the town hall or by insurance companies.
“I live next door, I heard crackling. With my father, we went through the garden removing the fence. The glass door to the living room was open and my father brought the three dogs out [des yorkshires, NDLR] that we put safely in the car,” says Fahd. The latter explains that he wanted to enter the first house to close a door to prevent the fire from spreading “but that’s where there was an explosion”. Animals still died in the fire. “I lost a cat, birds and a parrot. Fortunately, my neighbors saved my dogs,” relates Matthieu.
Since then, solidarity has been organized. Neighbors bring hygiene products, others just stop by to check on them. “We really want to salute the work of the firefighters and emergency services, as well as the support of the town hall, the mayor and also the neighbors,” insist Marielle Blanc and Carole Vanwanmbeck.