Friday’s fire in a 10-storey apartment house in Reims in the northeast of France apparently caused a battery of an electric scooter, Informed on Saturday local prosecutor François Schneider.
As the AFP agency specified, A 13-year-old boy lost his life, who in an effort to save himself from the flames, jumped out of the window of the apartment on the fourth floor. In the apartment, the firefighters were found burned body, which probably belongs to his 15-year-old brother. The combustion products were also suffocated by an 87-year-old woman and her 59-year-old son, who lived on the 8th floor.
The fire in the residential house in Reims was probably caused by an e-spike.
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X/Firefighters of the Marne
Two people were seriously injured, including the stepfather of the dead boys who suffered severe burns. Sorter injuries in the hospital treated 26 others. Other people on the spot treated the Red Cross.
Prosecutor Schneider said at a press conference that “there is no doubt” that The fire was randomly and from e-bolors, which ignited for unknown reasons. Fire of the battery “is extremely difficult to extinguish” – firefighters have fought the flame for more than three hours, the prosecutor added. The fire broke out on Friday around 00:30 CEST and extinguished it after 03:45 CO CEST, said on his website LE Figaro.
