Fire in the Var: who are the two victims? – Franceinfo

After two days without human casualties, the fire that started Monday August 16 near a motorway rest area of ​​the A57, north-east of Toulon (Var), left two dead on Wednesday, as well as 26 minor injuries. The two charred bodies were found in a house hit by the flames of the Val-de-Gilly, in the town of Grimaud, in the heart of the Massif des Maures.

This is Olivier, 54, owner of a guesthouse, described to France Télévisions as “someone who was very handy, very inventive “, by a resident of the village. The second victim is Virginie, a 32-year-old young woman from the Paris region who rented one of the rooms of the deceased man.

As the fire approached the house, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, she first tried to reach the firefighters by phone and then her family, France Televisions learned from several of her relatives. The young woman explained to her relatives that she and the owner of the house had tried to flee but that they had been blocked by the flames on the road and had turned around to reach the house. They ended up being blocked there by the flames.