A gigantic column of black smoke is visible for miles around.
A large-scale fire broke out this Tuesday morning around 10:30 am on the edge of the industrial area of Feuchère in Compans, near Mitry-Mory, along the D 212 which leads from Claye-Souilly to the eastern access to the Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
About sixty firefighters are working on a vacant lot located on rue Hélène Boselli, between two logistics warehouses.
Road traffic was not interrupted nor air traffic because the southern tracks of Roissy are very close.
A fire started for unknown reasons in a camp occupied by some 300 Roma.
It very quickly spread to precarious dwellings built for almost a year by their occupants.
He ravaged the entire camp, detonating numerous gas cylinders, hurling them into the air like projectiles.
A security perimeter has been installed around the intervention area in order to avoid collateral victims.
At 1:15 p.m., detonations sounded again.
We are talking about gas used for cooking or heating but also acetylene used for cutting metals.
The evacuation of the camp was rejected by the Bobigny court in early 2021
The operational center of the departmental fire and rescue service of Seine-et-Marne dispatched a high-power foam van to the site.
This heavy means of attacking a large-scale fire arrived on site before 1 p.m. in order to throw large quantities of extinguisher products on the blaze.
Compans, Tuesday August 31, 2021. A giant fire ravages a Roma camp from which the 300 occupants have been evacuated.
Gas cylinders explode.
A security perimeter is established.
Firefighters must prevent the fire from spreading to neighboring businesses.
A command group is also on site to direct the operations of the sixty firefighters engaged in the intervention.
A technical advisor who is an expert in chemical risk is also present to analyze the situation and determine the actions to be taken.
The firefighters' fear for businesses bordering the disaster is that the fire will spread to piles of tires recovered by the occupants of the camp.
In addition, the fire took place in front of the Shell service station reserved for heavy goods vehicles and located a few tens of meters away, on the other side of the D212.
Compans, Tuesday August 31, 2021. A giant fire ravages a Roma camp from which the 300 occupants have been evacuated.
Gas cylinders explode.
A security perimeter is established.
Firefighters must prevent the fire from spreading to neighboring businesses.
At 1 p.m., neither the firefighters nor the police had any notion of victim.
According to our information on the spot, the occupants of the camp who were evacuated took flight even before there was any question of accommodating them.
Joël Marion, the mayor (PCF) of Compans does not hide his anger and says he is scandalized.
According to him, the expulsion of the occupants of this camp had been requested by Aéroports de Paris, owner of the land where the Roma camp was located.
But in early 2021, the Bobigny court rejected this appeal.
The Roma stayed behind to be estimated at 300 on the last day of August.
Decontamination and restoration of the site could cost up to 300,000 euros
The land having been made, by ADP, available to the municipality which was to carry out a project there, the mayor does not plan to pay the bill for the evacuation of waste and rubble, depollution and restoration. places that he evaluates between 250,000 euros and 300,000 euros.
Compans, Tuesday August 31, 2021. The fire that broke out in the Roma camp seen from the Shell petrol station, on the other side of the D212.
Moreover, the fire broke out on land belonging to ADP, are the policemen of the
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ervice proximity security Roissy airport, depending on the police headquarters and based in Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis ), who are competent in this matter.
In addition, last December, an accidental fire broke out in the camp for Roma, mostly from Moldova, located in Vaux-le-Pénil.
The start of the fire was linked to an underground electrical connection.
On this site accommodating 800 people, three gas cylinders had exploded without causing any casualties.
A significant release of smoke had necessitated the evacuation of the two stores nearby, Lidl and Intermarché for three hours.
Compans, Tuesday August 31, 2021. A giant fire ravages a Roma camp from which the 300 occupants have been evacuated.
Gas cylinders explode.
A security perimeter is established.
Firefighters must prevent the fire from spreading to neighboring businesses.
