A major fire was underway on Wednesday March 10 in the morning in a building of the OVH company, specializing in computer servers, on a Seveso classified site in Strasbourg, announced the Bas-Rhin prefecture.
The fire, which broke out around 3 am, mobilized
"a hundred"
firefighters in the Port du Rhin district, east of the Alsatian capital, not far from the German border.
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The prefecture said that no victims had been identified in the fire. Firefighters were working to prevent the fire, which spread through a 4-story building housing servers, from spreading to other buildings. Despite the large plume of smoke, no toxic pollution was detected on the industrial site, according to the prefecture.