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Fire in Saint-Chamas: the health situation "stabilized", according to the prefecture

2022-01-12T19:22:09.540Z


The fire at a private waste recycling center located in Saint-Chamas, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, should be definitively extinguished in ...


The fire of a private waste recycling center located in Saint-Chamas, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, should be definitively extinguished in a few days and the health situation is "

for the moment stabilized

", announced Wednesday 12 January the prefecture in a press release.

"

The completion of the building deconstruction operations, allowing the final extinction of the fire to be consecrated, has been postponed by a few days

," she said.

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"

A large part of the building is nevertheless already demolished and accessible and will be drowned

", according to the same source, which specifies that "

the final extinction operations (flooding operations)

" will be initiated Thursday. The prefecture forced the company Recyclage Concept 13, which stored in its 3,200 m2 warehouse of waste brought by industrialists in order to sort it and then resell it to recycling companies, to have the building demolished so that the firefighters could finally access all the rubbish. "

The firefighters of the departmental fire and rescue service (SDIS) of Bouches-du-Rhône have also set up a reinforced water curtain limiting smoke emissions

", continued the prefecture.

"The health situation is stabilized for the time being"

Many residents have said they have been inconvenienced by the release of smoke since the start of the fire, which broke out on December 26.

At the height of the fire, pollution reached 800 micrograms of fine particles per cubic meter of air at certain times of the day, levels comparable to those experienced by Beijing during peak pollution.

The daily alert threshold to preserve health is ten times lower.

"

Public health France reports a drop in the number of reports issued by residents and an absence of significant returns from city medicine and emergency services since the start of the fire

," noted the prefecture in its communicated.

"

The health situation is stabilized for the time being

" and monitored by the Regional Health Agency and agents from Atmosud, an approved association for air monitoring, added the prefecture, according to which "

no groundwater supplying the drinking water network, or authorized wells, is not affected by the incident

”.

Source: lefigaro

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