A second home destroyed by a fire on Rue de la Hérode

On the evening of January 1, shortly after 8 p.m., a recent pavilion caught fire on Rue de la Hérode in Vierville-sur-Mer. A neighbor gave the alert after seeing flames coming out of the roof.

Despite the intervention of the Trévières and Bayeux firefighters, the house was quickly and completely devastated. The Caen urban search-and-rescue team had also gone to the site to rescue possible victims.

The owners, residents of Molay-Littry who used the pavilion as a second home, were absent. Warned, they noticed the damage upon their arrival, in the presence of Mayor Jean-Marie Oxéant.

According to the first reported findings, the fire may have had an electrical cause: a short circuit may have started in the freezer. This cause remained presented as a hypothesis at this stage.

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