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A Bolloré Logistics building on fire near Rouen

2023-01-16T23:16:21.284Z


The Seine-Maritime prefecture said in a press release that “no casualties are to be deplored, the employees have been evacuated” from this site “subject to authorization and not Seveso”.


A major fire that broke out on Monday afternoon in an industrial building rented by Bolloré Logistics containing some 8,000 lithium batteries located in Grand-Couronne, south of Rouen, was in

a "downward phase"

at the end of the evening, a- we learned from the prefecture.

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The fire at this site, which is not Seveso classified, and which had been evacuated at the end of the afternoon, did not cause any injuries and did not generate any dangerous pollution, according to this source.

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“The two cells” affected by the flames, one of which housed lithium batteries and the other tires,

“collapsed, reducing the intensity of the fire”

, declared the prefect of Seine Maritime Pierre- André Durand during a press briefing at the end of the evening.

"We are in a very encouraging downward phase."

He said that

"137 firefighters were at work"

around 10 p.m., helped by 60 vehicles and

"tugs that pump water to extinguish car batteries and foam to extinguish tires".

In the middle of the evening, a thick plume of smoke still emanated from the two buildings of 6,000 m2 each which burned, according to an AFP photographer on the spot.

The fire, declared at Bolloré Logistics around 4:30 p.m. according to the firefighters, then spread to a neighboring warehouse of the Districash group containing

“around 70,000 tires”.

The first residents are just over 500 meters from the burnt site, according to the prefect, who warns the population of

“winds which could turn during the night, with a possibility that the left bank of Rouen will be impacted by a smell of burning but always without risk, no evacuation, no containment”.

Turning winds but without pollution

However, the town of Orival, a few kilometers south of Grand-Couronne, asked its inhabitants on Facebook to

“stay confined, close the windows and do not go out under any circumstances”.

The prefect, however, assured that the SDIS had carried out air quality measurements which do not reveal

“no need for protection of the populations: the extinction of the hearth will take several hours but under the plume of smoke there is no danger, and no worries about pollution of the Seine”.

According to Pierre-André Durand,

"the only chemical risk comes from the combustion of lithium which can release hydrofluoric acid, only in the heart of the hearth",

but this substance is

"not present outside the site" .

Colonel Remy Weclawiak, deputy departmental director of SDIS76, present at his side, explained that

"the smoke left very high in the sky, there is a good dispersion and the readings near the site and a little outside did not find carbon monoxide, hydrochloric acid or hydrocyanic acid, the levels are zero”.

Mr. Weclawiak could not give a figure as to the extent of the plume which extends in a southeasterly direction.

"No casualties are to be deplored, the employees were evacuated"

from this site

"subject to authorization and not Seveso"

on the banks of the Seine, still according to the prefecture.

Contacted by AFP, the Bolloré group said it had

"set up a crisis unit in conjunction with the prefecture"

, specifying that it had

"no information on the causes of the fire"

at this stage .

, nor on the extent of the damage.

According to the logistics provider, the warehouse

“contained automotive components and lithium batteries.

The site is subject to regulations on the storage of combustible products”.

Located in the town of Grand-Couronne, this building was built about fifteen kilometers south of the city center of Rouen on a site much clearer than that of the Lubrizol factory where 10,000 tonnes of chemicals had gone up in smoke in a serious fire in September 2019.

Source: lefigaro

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