"A fire of this magnitude, we sometimes see one during his career, if we are lucky!" , drops a manager of Sdis-76 (departmental fire and rescue service of Seine-Maritime), crossed, in Rouen, in the corridors of a superb Art Deco fire department building. Then he resumes: "Finally, luck ... It's a way of saying!" The incident, which devastated two warehouses of the Lubrizol factory on September 26, 2019, and the adjoining hangars of Normandie Logistique, is "out of the ordinary" , summarizes his colleague, the commander Chris Chislard. Such a fire happens "once every fifty years" . He knows what he is talking about. The department has more than 70 Seveso sites, a record in France.
Five months after the fire, it's time to take stock. The government has decided to create an independent monitoring body, modeled on that of the Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Bureau. Inspections of classified installations will be reinforced. But other consequences are to be drawn, even if the
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