An exceptional fire in its complexity: it is a long and exhausting intervention that 130 Paris firefighters carried out during the night from Monday to Tuesday, 45, rue Delizy, in Pantin.
At the heart of an interlacing of storage cells spread over three hectares, they had to fight against a fire which devastated 1,400 m2 of a textile warehouse.
The alert was given around 8:30 p.m.
Finding the accesses, opening the metal curtains with the grinder and identifying the origin of the disaster lurking in the bowels of the building required the use of two drones equipped with thermal cameras to detect the hot spots.
A remote extinguishing robot was also used to get to the heart of the flames.
Despite all these precautions, two firefighters were slightly injured, victims of heat stroke.
In total, thirty machines and twelve lances were deployed to support the teams.
The fire was extinguished shortly before 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
Firefighters should monitor on site at least all day.
Several precedents
Warehouse fires containing textile materials are regular in Seine-Saint-Denis, a department which hosts many storage areas used in particular by wholesalers and importers of clothing.
Like the disasters that took place in Blanc-Mesnil, in May and October 2020, or in Aubervilliers, in June of the same year, where a thick cloud plunged the city into darkness in the middle of the afternoon.
But the most spectacular fire in recent years in Seine-Saint-Denis broke out in April 2015, in a textile warehouse in La Courneuve, near the A86.
More than 10,000 m 2 of shoes and clothing from a Chinese wholesaler had gone up in smoke.
Flames several tens of meters high were visible to motorists.
The magnitude of the ash smoke cloud had forced the SNCF to stop RER B traffic and resulted in the closure of the A86.
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/WK4II5WBFFDBZMNJ37VUSKAH6Q.jpg)
