PARIS – At the very least one particular person was killed and eight injured after a fireplace broke out in a single day in a hospital advanced on the outskirts of Paris, authorities mentioned on Thursday.
The fireplace on the Henri Mondor hospital in Creteil broke out late on Wednesday evening and was ultimately introduced beneath management within the early hours of Thursday morning.
The reason for the fireplace has not but been decided.
“The fireplace within the residential block throughout the Henri Mondor hospital advanced has now been introduced beneath management because of the intervention of firefighters,” Paris public hospitals chief Martin Hirsch mentioned on Twitter.
“We remorse to say that there was one loss of life,” he mentioned.