The night of Monday 28 to Tuesday 29 December was very agitated for the teams specializing in rescue and clearing of the departmental operational center of fire and rescue of Haute-Garonne.
In the city center of Toulouse, they intervened for the collapse of two buildings.
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Rue Fourbastard, firefighters had to intervene around 9:00 p.m. following the collapse of the roof of a four-story building, according to
the Dépêche du Midi
.
The apartment below was under construction and therefore unoccupied.
The specialized teams were then able to proceed with shoring and covering in this apartment under construction.
This event occurred a few hours after the roof of a building on Place de la Daurade collapsed.
No casualties are to be deplored but two people had to be relocated.
A firefighter confided to the Dépêche du Midi that it could be a problem of water infiltration.
Faced with these two episodes, the town hall of Toulouse announced to intervene on site a specialist in building risks.
Around 3:00 a.m., firefighters are called in for a new collapse.
Direction rue Joly this time where a wall supporting several housing units in Toulouse has collapsed.
The Codis de la Haute-Garonne here also advocates the hypothesis of "
water infiltration
".
On site, specialized teams cleared almost three cubic meters of debris that had fallen on the floor of the first floor.
In this building, no less than three family homes reside there and none will be relocated.
A building engineer will visit the scene announced the municipality of Toulouse.
