Overview
- The explosion that tore through a mobile home at Camping Les Îles on Friday in Pénestin left five people badly burned.
- The victims are a 62-year-old woman and four children aged 8 to 13, with two children in critical condition after burns of about 35% and 90%.
- Rescuers deployed about 40 firefighters and four helicopters, and neighbors cooled the children’s burns with water before airlifts to the Nantes burn unit.
- Gendarmerie investigators are focusing on a probable gas leak inside the new unit, which uses bottled gas for cooking and hot water.
- A medico-psychological support team is on site, and reporters note a separate gas-related blast hit the same campsite last August, raising renewed safety questions.