{"id":17133,"date":"2025-06-08T11:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/an-electric-scooter-is-blamed-for-a-violent-fire-that-killed-4-in-a-french-city\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:38:47","slug":"an-electric-scooter-is-blamed-for-a-violent-fire-that-killed-4-in-a-french-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/an-electric-scooter-is-blamed-for-a-violent-fire-that-killed-4-in-a-french-city\/","title":{"rendered":"An electric scooter is blamed for a violent fire that killed 4 in a French city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbm3e4gx00cl26np3y70bwj9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Four people were killed in an \u201cextremely violent\u201d blaze seemingly caused by a battery-powered electric scooter that tore through a 10-story housing block in Reims, the capital of France\u2019s Champagne region, authorities said Saturday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbm3knch00053d5thnb9rryg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A 13-year-old jumped to his death from the 4th floor apartment where the fire started in the early hours of Friday and a burned body found inside is believed to be that of his older brother, aged 15, said Reims prosecutor Fran\u00e7ois Schneider.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbm3knci00063d5tql8wpcip@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            An 87-year-old woman and her 59-year-old son who lived on the 8th floor suffocated to death in the smoke, he said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbm3knci00073d5trbayolgc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Two people were seriously injured, including the dead boys\u2019 stepfather who was badly burned, and 26 others were treated in hospital for lighter injuries, he said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbm3knci00083d5tvnb1hs4q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Schneider said there is \u201cno doubt\u201d that the blaze was accidental, spreading quickly from the scooter that caught fire for reasons unknown.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbm3knci00093d5t9xruzmc2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Battery fires \u201care extremely difficult to extinguish\u201d and fire officers battled the blaze for more than three hours, the prosecutor said.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were killed in an \u201cextremely violent\u201d blaze seemingly caused by a battery-powered electric scooter that tore through a 10-story housing block in Reims, the capital of France\u2019s Champagne region, authorities said Saturday. 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