2 dead and 4 seriously injured in major fire at French ski resort Courchevel

In the French ski resort Courchevel in a large fire, two deaths, four serious injuries, and eighteen lichtgewonden cases. In total, there are sixty victims affected by the fire.

In the night from Saturday to Sunday flew three buildings on fire and dozens of through the fire surprised people had for the fire operations in the very centre of the resort. It would, according to local media, especially to people that this ski season in Courchevel work, among them many Brazilians.

People were in a panic. They would through the balconies to the sea of fire have escaped and are in pajamas or underwear in the freezing cold have been. The newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré reported that the two deceased persons found in the building where the fire on the third and top floor was created.

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The nearby fire and police to arrange shelter for the victims. “The fire brigade was quickly and massively on the spot and delivered date”, said witness Frederik Ongenaet.

Certainly sixty people by the fires. Helicopters emergency landed on a nearby ski-slopes of the largest ski resort in the world, about 70 kilometres east of Grenoble. Three of the four seriously injured people were by helicopter and taken to hospital.

The fire around 4.30 am broken out on the third and top floor of a building, where some 60 tourists, including foreigners, stayed. That notifies the prefecture. Around 8 hours later, the fire was completely under control. Equally, it was feared that the flames would skip to a fourth building, restaurant La Saulire, but that could be the firefighters, who 70 were torn out, to prevent. The cause of the fire is not yet clear. Also about the identities of the two fatalities, whose bodies found were in the building, can still not be communicated.

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