According to our colleagues at BFMTV, a fire is currently burning in a block of flats at Porte d’Orléans, in Paris’s 14th arrondissement. Several flats on the 8th floor are on fire.
There is a significant amount of smoke, which is visible from a distance. According to the latest figures released by the Paris Fire Brigade, nine people have been injured, two of them seriously. A rescue operation was carried out using a ladder truck.