Overview
- A nighttime blaze tore through a family home in Rougemont, in eastern France, killing a 51-year-old man and his 9-year-old daughter.
- About twenty firefighters fought the flames as emergency doctors from SMUR, France’s mobile urgent care service, tried to resuscitate the father.
- The man died at the scene, and crews later found the child dead in the rubble.
- Gendarmes said the house was completely destroyed, and they have launched an inquiry to determine how the fire started.
- The child’s mother and paternal grandmother went to the site, and police said the parents were divorced and the mother was not at the home.