Overview
- The Chamonix apartment building, which caught fire early Wednesday around 6:20 a.m., saw 36 residents evacuated and a 75-year-old man found dead.
- Fire crews deployed about 56 to 60 firefighters with ladders to contain the flames and protect nearby structures.
- The residence housed people with limited mobility, which raised the risk as the fire broke out before many were awake.
- Officials report two apartments destroyed and four left uninhabitable in Chamonix, with about a dozen people set to be rehoused by the landlord and town hall.
- In a separate Toulouse incident around midday, a 90 m² house was gutted, three people were slightly affected by smoke, and two young bystanders rescued a grandfather and his granddaughters.