A 70-year-old woman died in the fire in her apartment on the night of Thursday to Friday in the center of Nice, announces the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) of the Alpes-Maritimes. A major rescue system, requiring the commitment of 46 firefighters and eighteen vehicles, was mobilized.
All the occupants of the building concerned as well as those of the neighboring building had to be evacuated, ie 25 people in total. They will be relocated by the town hall for most of them, specifies the Sdis.
Checking for possible hot spots this Friday
Called around 1:30 a.m. at 96 boulevard Gambetta, for a significant release of black smoke, the firefighters had to circumscribe the widespread fire from a dwelling located on the third floor of this building which has five.
They extinguished the fire using four lances “to limit the spread of the fire to the upper floors”, indicates Sdis. “The ventilation, excavation and cooling operations lasted part of the night,” he added. A round will be carried out in the morning to check the absence of residual hot spots. »