Taken aback and surprised. “It seems there was a fire last night. Oh well yes, look at the windows”, “Hey, look, it burned”, “No, but it burned! ”, we could hear.
“I’m worried about my boss”
Among these onlookers, a store employee. “I received a message from my boss last night telling me not to come to work this morning because of a fire. But I didn’t have any more details,” he slips, his eyes fixed on the blackened window in front.
“I am reassured that there are no injuries but I am very worried for my boss, his morale, and for the extent of the damage… Hoping that the insurance companies are fully involved,” he confides. “Behind the glass, there are the crates, I wonder what condition they are in. In any case, I will be at my boss’s side.”
In the Beauty Success perfumery, adjoining Carrefour City, the manager, Damien Quéméner, was still present at the end of the morning, after a rude awakening. “I was alerted by remote surveillance around 1:30 a.m. I moved immediately, the firefighters were already on site.” The manager had a big scare. “Here, these are wooden frames, it could have spread. But the building was spared. Here, not a black mark, not a drop of water, we were very lucky,” he says, relieved.
“We saw smoke entering the apartment”
The night was also full of emotion for this Guingampais, resident of an immediate neighboring building. “It was my wife who woke me up around 1:30 a.m., alerted by noises. We were in complete darkness, we saw an army of firefighters outside. We realized that there was smoke in the lower floor of the apartment and a large opening at the rear, on the courtyard side, but no flame. We got dressed quickly and went out to get to safety and check that there was no one in the other apartments,” he says.
“We were a little worried, but we quickly understood that the disaster was limited to the building next door. I went back to collect our three cats and we spent part of the night outside, following the progress of the firefighter intervention.” The couple was able to return to their home around 4:30 a.m., the electricity was restored around 10:30 a.m. “I believe that at the time, we did not realize the importance of the disaster because we did not see any flame. I think our cats were the most scared.”
