"The outcome is 484 people evacuated in 15 minutes. Four people sustained minor injuries," says Bruno Charlot, sub-prefect of Albertville, following a fire of undetermined origin that broke out in the middle of the night at a hotel in La Plagne (Savoie department, in the French Alps), while firefighters remain on site responding to the incident. The alert was given at 2:45 am, and a major response involving over 100 firefighters was deployed to ensure no one remained on the premises and to prevent any risk of the fire spreading. SOUNDBITE