A heatwave led to a strong mobilization of the police during the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Créteil.
“On Wednesday, around 10 p.m., the overheating of a silo at the Créteil incinerator with a risk of explosion was reported to the emergency services,” details the prefecture in a press release on Thursday morning, before adding: The departmental operational center (COD) was therefore activated throughout the night by the prefect of Val-de-Marne in order to coordinate the action of the firefighters and all state services.
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The decision was quickly made to close the N6 which passes nearby, in the town of Maisons-Alfort, adjacent to the town-prefecture.
It was reopened at 4:30 a.m.
Furthermore, the system put in place “by the security forces thus required the evacuation of the KFC restaurant and the gym located nearby,” specifies the prefecture.
Monitoring of the site continues at least today
Nearly sixty personnel from the Paris fire brigade were deployed to lower the temperature of the silo, in particular by cooling it by sending water over it.
“The firefighters helped lower the temperature of the silo” and the operations “ended around 6 a.m., without causing any material damage or casualties,” indicates the prefecture.
To ensure the security perimeter around the site, “around thirty police officers were deployed.
» Special monitoring of the site and the silo in question was put in place at least for the day.
This incineration center currently has two ovens while a third is under construction.
Suez, delegatee of the Joint Intermunicipal Union for the Treatment of Urban Waste of Val-de-Marne (Smitduvm) and which brings together 20 municipalities, plans to treat nearly 345,000 tonnes of waste per year.