Three municipal police officers from Saint-Gilles testify after saving the life of a mother in her home

Les policiers municipaux ont sauvé la vie d’une maman de 39 ans à Saint-Gilles,, impasse des Pins. Midi Libre – Correspondant

Trois policiers municipaux ont sauvé une mère de famille, âgée de 39 ans, après un feu dans la cuisine d’une maison, ce 24 juillet, en fin d’après-midi à Saint-Gilles.

Around 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday, a call from a teenage girl alerted the municipal police of Saint-Gilles. This young girl was worried and upset. “She had just arrived home. She opened the door and saw smoke, describes the head of the municipal police department. She was panicked. Her mother, who was in the house, was not answering her calls. We went to the scene immediately." From outside, we could see a little smoke, confirm his two other municipal police colleagues who accompanied their head of department on the site. When we arrived on site, the smoke was coming under the front door." The police will join them on the scene.

Flames in the kitchen

“The shutters were closed. And the mother of the family did not answer our calls”. Inside the house, the situation is worrying. There is a lot of smoke. The municipal police officers decide to move forward into this home.”” We continued to call. Then we heard a voice. She was in another room and had fallen asleep. She did not understand what was happening. We grabbed her and accompanied her to the exit of the house. And we cut off the electricity. We saw flames in the kitchen. “His daughter was in tears,” the municipal police officers testify.

The mother who inhaled a lot of smoke is being treated by the firefighters. The victim, in relative emergency, will be hospitalized at the Carémeau hospital in Nîmes.

" It was our screams that woke her up, reports one of the municipal police officers. If we hadn't intervened in time, the firefighters told us, she could have died ten minutes later."

A frying pan being prepared caused the fire

The victim's daughter, who also inhaled smoke, as well as the municipal police officers will be taken care of on site by the emergency services.

The fire is of accidental origin. The mother had apparently prepared a frying pan in the kitchen before her daughter arrived and then fell asleep. Apparently, it was these fumes that caused the 39-year-old woman to feel unwell.

For security reasons, the municipal police officers of Saint-Gilles, who saved this mother, did not wish to be photographed and asked to remain anonymous. I subscribe to read more