A huge plume of smoke can be seen in the distance.
A fire broke out on Monday, around 4:30 p.m., in the Bolloré Logistics factory in Grand-Couronne, near Rouen.
According to firefighters in Paris-Normandy, it is a fire of lithium batteries stored in a cell of a building of around 20,000 m2.
🔴 Fire and explosions at Bolloré Logistics in Grand-Couronne, near #Rouen.
Help is on the spot.
Firefighters are talking about a lithium battery fire.
More info to come on @76actu.
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— Julien Bouteiller (@j_bouteiller) January 16, 2023
According to Paris-Normandie, an explosion occurred inside the building and then a significant release of smoke was noted by the emergency services on site.
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”.
“About thirty trucks and a hundred firefighters are on site,” explained Lieutenant Guillaume Casada, in charge of press relations at the Seine-Maritime fire and rescue service, specifying that an emergency call triggering the The intervention of the firefighters took place at 4:32 p.m.
“There are many explosions, the adjoining building of 6,000 m2 contains 80,000 tires,” he explained, fearing that the firefighters will be mobilized “for several days”, still according to the same source.
