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There has been another major fire in Chamonix. The blaze started at 21h30 in a building located in the town center. 20 apartements were gutted and 6 people taken to Chamonix hospital following smoke inhalation... In early February buildings on the Rue de Moulins, part of the "English Quarter" were destroyed by fire.
Rue de Moulins Fire
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Plus many woken up by the siren at 7.30am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, How shocking 
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Is Chamonix unusually combustable?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Ian Hopkinson, wouldn't happen so easily to a concrete resort!
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FenlandSkier, a pity really, Les Menuires so clearly needs a really big fire 
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ANOTHER FIRE 
Thats the 4th big one in 6 years if you include the Tunnel !!
Don't suppose there is any co incidence in the fact that it was the 'English Quarter' and that there is simmering discontent with the rapid Anglicisation and general purchase of the place by the English ?
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Peter S, I was hearing the other month (from a couple of Chamonix residents) that the local fire dept are so incompetent they have never saved a single building from burning down - although they are not too bad at stopping the fire spreading to nearby buildings. (Edit: offensive and probably incorrect statement deleted)
Last edited by After all it is free  on Wed 24-05-06 13:11; edited 1 time in total
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| Peter S wrote: |
ANOTHER FIRE
Thats the 4th big one in 6 years if you include the Tunnel !! |
When I lived in Cham. in 99/00 there was one of the hotel particulier in the town center that had been gutted, are you counting that one?
I suspect Chamonix has some old buildings with overloaded wiring which are more prone to fires and the spread of fire.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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OMG. Shocking I think.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Amazing how much property values increase after a good re-furbishment paid for by the insurance company
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GrahamN, not getting at you mate honest, but it's also worth considering that many of these buildings were constructed of wood in the days before fire was invented and have spent the intervening 200years being marinated in creasote.
I know of one large chalet that went from smell of smoke to stone foundations (I mean, literally nothing remaining above the stone) in less than 15 minutes. Nothing the fire dept could have done even if they'd got there any sooner. Luckily no one was inside.
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You know it makes sense.
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