Fire in Paris – level 1

11-02-2019 07:00

There is a fire in Paris. A building is on fire. Eight or more people die. Thirty people are injured. The fire is in the 16th Paris district. Normally, this district is calm. Two hundred firefighters stop this fire. They evacuate people, too.

The police do not know the cause of the fire. However, they arrest one woman.

Difficult words: district (an area, a part of a city), evacuate (move away from the danger), cause (why and how something starts).

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