Saturday morning, the citizens of Bizet woke up with the announcement of a terrible fire on rue Duribreu. Very quickly, the sad news went around the village and the whole entity: two little girls aged 10 and 12, Lizzie and Tessa, did not survive. The fire started around 8:30 a.m.
Alerted by the fumes, neighbors banged on the door of the house. Inside was a family of seven. The parents and three children managed to get out of the house but not the two little girls. Despite attempts to rescue them, the scale of the fire and the smoke would not have allowed the family to go upstairs.
>> Several residents testify
“We only think about this drama…”
The sudden and unexpected disappearance of the little girls caused the turmoil of many people in Bizet and throughout the entity of Comines. Two days after the events, the residents struggle to find the words to discuss this tragedy. “We only feel sadness,” explains Christian, a close neighbor of the house on rue Henri Duribreu in which Lizzie, Tessa, their parents and the rest of the siblings lived.
However, ten years ago, little Lizzie had already made the headlines, for a very special event: her… birth! The latter had indeed taken place in rather exceptional conditions, since the little girl was born on the groundin a hallway of the hospital…
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> Maeva, Lizzie’s mother, recounts this particular childbirth
“It was easier for me…”
>> Back to this event which had shaken the hospital of Ypres.