Around 4:30 p.m., avenue des Lombards, in Troyes, a fire broke out in an apartment building. The fire broke out in a ground floor apartment, when the occupant had gone to pick up her children from school. No casualties have been reported.
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In the Chartreux sector, in Troyes, a fire broke out around 4:30 p.m. in an apartment building on avenue des Lombards. The fire started from a ground floor apartment. An employee of the neighboring nursery says she saw “a lot of smoke coming from the ground floorshe declares, still in shock. We saw people jumping from the first and second floore”.
Clément Meunier, a journalist present on site, reports that the owner, who had gone to pick up her children from school, did not understand the reasons for the start of the fire.
All occupants of the building were evacuated following the spread of smoke to all floors of the building. Around fifty firefighters were deployed to the scene to bring the fire under control. No casualties were reported, except for one person who jumped from one of the floors and was slightly injured. Around ten people were also slightly poisoned by the smoke which spread through the floors. All the victims of this fire will not be able to return to their homes for the moment, given the spread of smoke.
In a post on X, the national police recommend avoiding the area and not crossing the security perimeter. GRDF is also present on site to cut off the gas.
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