A catastrophe that had been prepared.
Emergency services are at work early Saturday March 9 in the center of Toulouse to ensure that no victims are trapped in the rubble of a building which collapsed in the middle of the night but had been previously emptied of its occupants, firefighters indicated.
Around fifty firefighters are on site, accompanied by dog teams, and evacuated 23 people staying in adjoining buildings during the night, the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of Haute-Nord told the press. Garonne.
A “significant crack”
This three-story building on rue Saint-Rome, three blocks from the famous Toulouse Capitol, was evacuated on Tuesday following a first
“collapse of an interior wall”
, the SDIS then indicated.
After this immediate evacuation of residents, a
“significant crack”
was detected by
“building risk specialists”
, and it was initially planned that the building would benefit from shoring carried out by a private company, according to this same source. Tuesday.