"They shouted to be saved", the scary testimony of the fire in Paris

Images of the fire of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, February 5, 2019 – BSPP – Brigade of the fire brigades Paris / AFP [19659003] "From home, I heard people shouting" Save me! "Still horrified by a night" infernal ", this neighbor explains the ordeal lived by people trapped in a fire in a Parisian building that killed 10 people Tuesday.

The neighbor, who did not want to give his name, remains shaky and his face reflects an expression of terror, after this seemingly intentional fire, which occurred in an eight-storey building in a wealthy neighborhood to the west of the capital, also caused injuries and burns to 30 people, including including six firefighters.

"I live in the building next door and I saw the second ladder burning, I noticed an odor", says "I saw firefighters going up and down and hell from this fire that never went out. "

Faced with the violence of the flames, some residents of this building of the 1970s became and continue to

A building inhabitant with" psychiatric history "was arrested, according to the police, who was in custody on the roof.

Stephanie, another neighbor, said: "I have seen people die in front of you.

"At first we thought it was a fight, we heard a woman screaming loudly," said to AFP Nicolas, l & # 39; one of the neighbors, that he did not want to give his last name.

"I screamed, howled and we left, the building was already on fire," he adds.

"We could not use the ladders of the trucks, so we had to use them."

Firefighters struggled to get to the center of the fire because the entrance to the building overlooked an interior patio. , according to Captain Valérian Fuet, spokesman of the firefighters of Paris. It took more than five hours and 200 firefighters to control the fire.

"They had two trucks, the grand staircase, but they could not do anything, then they put extensions and more extensions, pipes and more pipes … all the resources," says Nicolas .

"We bring water to the firefighters. (19659006)" And you see it, you feel it … If you realize that it's in the building from here to side and what could have happened to you, "sighs the young neighbor who wishes to remain anonymous.