{"id":14365,"date":"2025-06-07T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/an-electric-scooter-is-blamed-for-a-violent-fire-that-killed-4-in-a-french-city\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:00:50","slug":"an-electric-scooter-is-blamed-for-a-violent-fire-that-killed-4-in-a-french-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/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\">            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\">            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\">            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\">            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\">            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\">            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","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. A 13-year-old jumped to his death from the 4th floor apartment where the fire started in the early hours of Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}