Firefightersreportedly could not initially locate the source of the fire.
It is believed the fire is currently under control.
A fire is currently raging at the Eiffel Tower.
The monument has just been evacuated.
Flames were observed in the elevator shaft between the 1st and 2nd floors.
All people in the vicinity have been evacuated.
The firefighters are still working.
Some reports said the origin of the blaze may have been the overheating of an elevator cable.
A fire is in progress at the Eiffel Tower.
Flames were observed in the elevator shaft between the 1st and 2nd floors.
All people in the vicinity have been evacuated.
The firefighters are still working, a BVoltaire journalist tweeted.
The fire has been brought under control and is now out, he added.
After Notre Dame, we now have the Eiffel Tower on fire!Expressquoted another person saying.
Donc ce matin incendie a la tour Eiffel et maintenant gare St Lazar a Paris.
It smells like a burner all over the neighborhood, and on the clothes.
Firefighters arrived on the scene shortly after 9 a.m., a local said.
I went to see.
Initially, there was a little smoke but it went pretty fast, it quickly spread.
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