Called on Christmas Eve, firefighters discover the body of a woman in the rubble of a house ravaged by fire.

Les pompiers ont mis 5 h pour éteindre l’incendie. Illustration Envato

The fire broke out on the night of December 24 to 25 and despite the intervention of the firefighters, the fire ravaged the house and a body was discovered in the rubble.

The fire broke out on the night of Tuesday, December 24 to Wednesday, December 25, during Christmas Eve night, in the town of Montséret, south of Narbonne. Emergency services were then called around 11:55 p.m. to intervene in this house, isolated from the village, according to information from l’Indépendant.

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A woman's body found

About thirty firefighters with three trucks and a large ladder are then deployed around the house , a water carrier vehicle, an ambulance and a nurse. “The fire was particularly violent. We deployed near the house and set up a significant hydraulic device to have water “Continuous water in the face of this massive fire”, explains the head of the fire brigade to our colleagues at Actu.

The fire extinguished after 5 hours of intervention

After 5 hours of intervention, the fire is finally extinguished and the body of a woman is found in the rubble. “It's catastrophic, I'm completely upset” , declares Yves Fabre, mayor of the village to l'Indépendant.

It would be a woman in her fifties who was returning from work according to her relatives, but the circumstances surrounding the fire remain unclear. An autopsy of the body should be decided this Thursday, December 26.