A major fire broke out on Wednesday morning in a carpentry company in Bierne, near Dunkirk in the North, without causing any casualties, we learned from the prefecture and the gendarmes.
The fire, which had been raging for around 4:30 a.m. on a 6,000 m2 warehouse, was contained at 8:25 a.m., Dunkirk sub-prefect Hervé Tourmente told AFP.
No casualties are to be deplored, the site was empty, and "
there is no risk of toxic smoke, it's wood burning
," he said.
Sixty firefighters, equipped with nine nozzles were deployed to fight the flames on the site, from the company Menuiserie Billiet.
Firefighters fought to protect administrative premises and tools, said the prefecture.
The fire, which caused "
significant damage
" disrupted school services, preventing buses from leaving the depot, the gendarmerie said on its Facebook page.
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“
I saw a big fire and the flames in the distance, it was quite impressive
,” an employee of the Hauts de Flandre Community of Communes told AFP, contacted from the headquarters in Bergues, nearly three miles from the fire.
