Blocks have fallen from the cliff overlooking the building on the banks of the Seine, others, larger, are also threatening to break off... A situation which is at the origin of an operation by the Val-d's firefighters. 'Oise Tuesday morning.
Specialized teams of firefighters, including those of the Grimp (perilous environment intervention group) deployed in the residence of the Lions of Val-d'Herblay on the banks of the Seine, quai du Génie, at the level of the Saules building. , built at the foot of the relief.
The three apartments on the ground floor, more directly threatened, were evacuated as a preventive measure during the intervention.
Only one remained uninhabited on Wednesday morning.
The accesses have been secured, prohibiting the passage on the alley located behind the building whose access on the cliff side has been closed off.
According to the reconnaissance carried out by the firefighters on the site, on the cliff, about 3 cubic meters of additional blocks could be brought down the slope of about thirty meters.
The municipal police were also mobilized.
A local elected official was there.
“Other unstable blocks”
"It happened around 5:30 in the morning, in the night from Sunday to Monday", confides on the spot the manager of the residence, Jean-Paul, who then discovers in the alley the ten blocks of limestone which are are detached.
They caused no injuries.
“I climbed above to see what it was and discovered other unstable blocks that were in danger of falling.
I immediately called the syndic of the residence and then the firefighters.
At their request, we made a video, filming the scene so that they are well aware of what happened.
They decided to come immediately.
I was waiting for a car, they arrived in large numbers.
For him, the weather conditions are the cause of the incident.
"There was a heat wave this summer, in recent weeks it froze, then thawed... The ground is moving..."
Elyane, 81, was able to return to her apartment in the Saules building.
"I was evacuated yesterday but not for long," she says.
The problem is that this is the second time this has happened to us this year.
A few months ago, it fell under my neighbor's windows.
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According to Codis 95, the Véritas office took charge of the follow-up intervention, in order to secure the site in the long term.
Last July, a block of chalk of 20 m3, estimated at 5 tons had detached from the rocky peak dominating Haute-Isle, in the Vexin, and had descended to the departmental 913, fortunately without causing any injuries.
He had passed the small town hall of the town before stopping at his feet.
A spectacular landslide which also signs the natural erosion of the cliff and which had caused the closure of the road which connects Vétheuil to Roche-Guyon.
“It is undoubtedly the heat wave which is at the origin of this landslide.
It was very hot, around 40 degrees, then it rained, and it's hot again…” indicated the mayor, Alain Errard.