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The fire broke out on rue de Charonne in a home located on the 7th floor of a building. The origins of the fire remain unknown at this time.
“We heard a faint explosion then the police asked us to come down”, explains an old lady sitting on a chair in the rue de Charonne. This Sunday evening around 8 p.m., an explosion took place at number 146 of this street in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, on the seventh floor of a residential building in the private park which has eight floors. A fire then broke out in an apartment. At 8:30 p.m., police and the Paris fire brigade (BSPP) arrived on site. Sixty-six firefighters and seventeen engines were needed to bring the fire under control.
Thibaut Déléaz, Le Figaro
In the evening, the BSPP indicated that the fire was in the process of being extinguished. According to a police source who spoke to the Figaro, three people died. According to several residents, one of them, a man according to testimonies, died trying to escape from his home through the window. “Someone on the 6th floor tried to grab him but he fell,” declared two residents to our journalist present on site.
Around 10 p.m., firefighters gathered residents in a nearby café, the Nouveau Carillon, to give them more information. According to elected official Nour Durand-Raucher, security delegate in the 11th arrondissement, residents, except those who live near the apartment where the explosion took place, should be able to return to their homes “in about an hour“.