French police have arrested a man in his 30s who they say “might have been at the scene” of one of the deadliest fires in Paris. <br /><br /> Eight people, including two children, were killed when an apartment was engulfed in flames on Wednesday morning. <br /><br /> Police suspect the blaze was started deliberately.<br /><br /> “There was a small paper fire first and we intervened,” explained Gabriel Plus, Paris firefighters spokesperson. “We stopped the fire quickly, and ventilated the stairwell. There was nothing to suggest a small fire would have such tragic consequences and yet we were called back to the same address two hours later. And then we had a totally different scenario.”<br /><br /> A witness described hearing women and children in the building screaming “save us!” <br /><br /> Police say two of the victims died after they tried to escape through windows.
