2023-11-15 16:30:00
He is still in shock, Isa Konkurkhanov. The 25-year-old from Namur was passing by chance on rue des Crépalles, a stone’s throw from the famous Mur de Huy, on Tuesday evening, when he and his friends saw smoke coming from a house. “We immediately got out of the car to see what was happening,” explains the young man. “But we saw absolutely nothing, given the thick cloud of smoke. As soon as we realized that a house was on fire, we broke the front door to try to get in but we mightn’t even take two steps. The heat was too much. Everything we might try to do, we did.”
Who are the 6 victims of the dramatic fire in Huy? “Their kids were super polite.”
They called for help
Without panicking, the Namur resident then shouted in the street to alert the neighbors. “I tried to wake up as many people as possible. Some woke up groggy and didn’t understand anything. We heard a woman scream twice. We even asked her to jump, he said. When the neighbors told us that there were six people in the house, we tried to put water on them and something on their faces.” In vain, unfortunately. “We were the ones who called the emergency services. If we hadn’t done that, the toll might have been even higher, since the fire would have spread to neighboring homes. It really hurts my heart because we didn’t “He didn’t know how to do anything while we were there. My mother lives in the city center of Huy, it’s a real tragedy.”
“Our firefighters are also rescuers. And there, they mightn’t save anyone…”
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