The alert was given around 6 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2018. A thick smoke emanated from an apartment on the ground floor of a building in Val-de-Vire.

The firefighters intervened at around 6 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2018. A thick smoke was emerging from an apartment on the ground floor of a building on Georges Pompidou Avenue in the neighborhood. Val-de-Vire. Fortunately, the apartment was empty at the time of the incident.

The soldiers managed to control the flames before they progressed to the other apartments. At around 18:50, about twenty residents of the building were waiting to know if they would be able to return home or if they would have to benefit from a relocation solution.