Sunday evening, a man in his fifties died in a house fire in Tence. The tragedy occurred in the village of Mazeaux around 8:15 p.m. It was at this time that a motorist called the fire department to alert them to a fire.
He saw smoke billowing from a two-story house. But in their intervention, the firefighters discovered an unconscious man upstairs. With the reinforcement of the SMUR, they tried to resuscitate him, in vain.
The flames would have started from the ground floor and the firefighters prevented the spread of the fire to the rest of the house. But the significant release of smoke had largely spread to the floor when they arrived.
They were 26 in total, from the centers of Tence, Yssingeaux, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Sainte-Sigolène / Saint-Pal-de-Mons. The mayor of the town David Salque-Pradier was also on the scene. The gendarmes will have to define the circumstances of this tragic fire.