Seine-Saint-Denis: three dead in the fire of a building in Stains

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10:40 a.m., November 25, 2023

Three people died on Saturday in a fire in a residential building in Stains, in Seine-Saint-Denis, and eight people were injured, including a child “in absolute emergency”. The fire broke out around 2 a.m. on the ground floor of a three-story building.

Three people died on Saturday in a fire in a residential building in Stains, in Seine-Saint-Denis, and eight people were injured, including a child “in absolute emergency”, we learned from the prefecture of the department.

According to a police source, the fire broke out around 2:00 a.m. on the ground floor of this building, near the town hall of this town of 39,000 inhabitants, located around fifteen kilometers north of Paris. By mid-morning, the fire was out.

An injured firefighter

A major device, mobilizing 24 vehicles and 88 firefighters, had been deployed, the prefecture said in a press release. “A firefighter was slightly burned during the intervention,” according to the same source.

The other residents of the building, evacuated, were accommodated in a gymnasium. An investigation to determine the causes of the fire was opened by the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the department’s judicial police service.

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