A defenseless frangipane cake. (illustration) - ALLILI MOURAD / SIPA

A galette des rois recklessly forgotten in an oven led to the evacuation of the Vosges prefecture in Epinal on Friday, as well as the intervention of firefighters and firefighters and the police, we learned from the prefecture. The incident, which lasted at most "thirty minutes", occurred in the early morning, said the same source, confirming information from the daily Vosges Matin .

A "smoke release" was noted, leading to the evacuation of the tens of people present in the building, it was explained. The emergency services and the police, who arrived at the scene, quickly located the origin of the smoke, which came from an oven in the prefecture foyer in which a galette des rois, obviously placed in the appliance to be reheated , had been forgotten and had ended up heating up a little too much…

"There was no start of fire," it was insisted. "The removal of doubts" on the origin of the smoke and "the reintegration of staff" was very rapid, it was added. For the Vosges prefecture, the incident had at least one virtue: "For us, this was an opportunity to conduct a full-scale evacuation exercise which went very well, in the best possible conditions (… ) The organization is at the top, ”we said.

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