“some have lost everything”, confides the deputy director of the establishment
Lightning struck one of the buildings of the Troarn children’s home, near Caen, on Sunday May 15, 2022, causing a fire. No injuries to be deplored but the fire damaged one of the interns.
“They were scared, but they did not feel threatened”, says Christine Bastin, deputy director of the Œuvre Notre-Dame children’s home in Troarn (Calvados). Sunday May 15, 2022, a little before 7 p.m., lightning struck one of the four boarding schools that make up this home. The lightning strike caused a fire.
No injuries are to be deplored among the eleven children aged 6 to 15 present in the establishment. All were evacuated and integrated other groups, so that they do not attend the conflagration of their building.
On the Facebook page orfindwhatacaen you can see this impressive fire.
In this children’s home, the association Oeuvre Notre-Dame takes care of children and adolescents from 6 to 21 years old, in danger or at risk of being so. These young people are appointed by the Department of Children and Families of Calvados, within the administrative or judicial framework. Some of them live continuously in their boarding school. “They don’t come home to the family, or very little. So it’s their home here and for some, they lost everything last night”, says the deputy director.
There are things that can be replaced: equipment, clothes, they can be redeemed. But a cuddly toy, photos, that for once cannot be replaced. It is all the work of the educators there that will help them get through these difficult times by having lost even more when they had very little or not much.
Christine Bastin, deputy director of the Œuvre Notre-Dame children’s homeFrance 3 Normandy
Normandy, on orange “storm” vigilance on Sunday May 15, 2022, is no longer on Monday. Vigilances have been lifted. However, according to Enedis, 2,500 homes remain without electricity in Normandy. the manager of the electricity network hopes to restore power everywhere by the end of the morning.