Overview
- Firefighters in Moselle responded to a residential blaze in L'Hôpital, finding flames on the ground floor and smoke upstairs.
- A 52-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman died, while a 20-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
- Crews from SDIS 57, the departmental fire and rescue service, deployed 20 vehicles and two hoses to put out the fire.
- The intervention prevented the flames from spreading to the two attached homes next door.
- The Sarreguemines prosecutor opened a judicial investigation, and officials have not yet determined the cause.