Near Lyon. Corentin, 19, saves all his neighbors from a fire: “It’s my hero”

The human record could have been terrible. Thursday August 14, 2025 around 1:30 p.m., a fire breaks down on the fifth floor In an apartment in a building in Vénissieux (Rhône), in the Metropolis of Lyon, at 10 rue Georges-Marrane.
At this hour, Corentin, 19 and resident just above the 6th grade hears a fire alarm. The young man does not reflect and sets out to find out all his neighbors to evacuate them urgently before the arrival of the firefighters. THE Young resident of Vénissieux is a “hero”testifies a neighbor who had not heard and saw the start of the fire. Four days after the drama, which fortunately did not injure the injured, he testified.

He toys at each door and evacuates the neighbors one to a

“I was in my living room with my family when I am alerted by a fire alarm from a neighbor of the 6th,” says Corentin met by News Lyon. “We open, we go on the landing and we see by its balcony three -meter flames and thick black smoke. I directly understand what’s going on. I evacuated my family and then I went to the 5th century where the fire takes place ”.

The young neighbor accompanies the family who lives in the apartment in flames, who was able to escape in time, to the outside of the residence.

“I act by instinct, without thinking”

He then decides to knock on each door to warn his neighbors, “by making rounds” from the first on the seventh floor. “I had to do this at least seven times, once I was sure that there was no one left, I went down and I waited firefighters who arrived 15-20 minutes later ”.

I acted by instinct, without thinking. I will do it again without hesitation, no one deserves to die in these conditions, in the flames. There were 5 gas cylinders ready to explode in the fire apartment.

Corentin is also entered the apartment in flamesa small T2, to make sure it was empty piece by piece. In the 6th grade, he insisted with an apartment occupied by a family. The man is at work, his wife has made a discomfort and their three children are there. “I have evacuated them from the accommodation,” he said.

“It’s my hero, my guardian angel”

“He came to knock very hard at our door, I had not heard the alarm of the 6th. Corentin struck at all doors, ”says Anne, a resident of the 5th.

“It’s my guardian angel, he’s really my angel, if he hadn’t been there … There were three gas cylinders, three on the balcony, two in the dining room,” she continues. “For me it’s a hero, he’s my darling, he’s great,” congratulates the neighbor. “My husband had a helmet on my ears, I was at the bottom and I was watching TV. If he hadn’t struck, I hadn’t heard anything. It’s the Savior! ».

“We went 5 minutes from the disaster”

According to Corentin, “according to firefighters, we went five minutes from the disaster. The gas cylinders were under pressure, ready to explode. The 5th and 6th floor could have been shaved ”.

“It made me funny in the heart of having congratulations from all my neighbors, let me tell me that I am their hero”. “I have known them since I was born, I grew up here with them,” said the young neighbor. The inhabitants are not ready to forget his gesture.

With our local correspondent in Vénissieux

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