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I am a volunteer organizing holidays for people with disabilities (3 timesaver year) and this is one of my biggest fears. Every start of a holiday we discuss what to do in case of emergency but I hope that I will never need it…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Eleven bodies have been found after a fire ripped through a holiday home hosting people with learning disabilities in eastern France.
Nearly 80 firefighters were sent to the blaze in La Forge after emergency services were alerted at 06:30 local time (04:30 GMT) on Wednesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron said his thoughts were with the victims and their families and thanked the emergency services for responding to the “tragedy”.
The building was being used by two groups of adults from two separate charities helping people with disabilities, the local government for the Haut-Rhin region said.
In an earlier post on social media, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin praised the bravery of firefighters who responded and warned casualties were likely, despite the fast work of the emergency services.
Photographs published in local media showed the partially wooden building in La Forge almost entirely ablaze early on Wednesday morning.
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