IT was 16 h 20 yesterday when Sophie Sienko, tenant of a T4 located on the 1st floor of 41 rue de Lorraine Nouzonville, preparing to go home. She has had time to push the door and turn around in emergency: "From the outside, we saw nothing, but when I opened the hall was filled with smoke. I saw some flames in the background. My sister was with me, she immediately called the 18. "
No fewer than 20 firefighters, arrived with two fire trucks and their large scale, will fight for two hours to tackle a fire which has continued to fester in the attic of the house, making the task of firefighters particularly delicate.
Everything was brand new
The building, which housed three apartments of 100 square meters, has been completely destroyed, although it has never really saw big flames coming from the roof or windows. Firefighters have stopped watering the roof to prevent the fire from gaining the adjoining dwellings. The house of a member of the 3rd Engineering has however been affected by the disaster.
Locally, Fabrice Monfroy, owner of the house
(located at the site of the former Spar), could not believe his eyes: "I had to redo everything. I invested heavily. The electricity had been reconstructed eight years ago, with digital metering system. Here recently, I had to change a boiler. I just do not understand. "
Sophie Scolari, a neighbor, thinks that this is an electrical problem: "When fetching the children at school, I walked past the house, I had time to see a thread hung in the entrance and sparking. "
Luckily, the two apartments, rented to a young couple in the first and the second two students, were devoid of any occupant, when the fire started. The apartment on the ground floor was not rented, but should be shortly shortly.
Jean-Marcel Camus Nouzonville Mayor, visited the scene to find any alternative accommodation for tenants. These, however, were greeted by relatives.