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About twenty firefighters, including a team from the Grimp (intervention group in perilous environments), were deployed to secure the intervention.

A fire damaged a radio transmitter located in Cars, near Limoges (Haute-Vienne) on Monday evening, depriving 1.5 million people of radio and digital terrestrial television (TNT).

The 230 m high pylon was largely destroyed.

"The Limoges site broadcasts to 750,000 people but it controls other sites, more distant and it is indeed 1.5 million people who are concerned", told AFP the operator TDF.

The fire started Monday evening "in the barrel of a pylon at the level of an electrical sheath and spread vertically to a height of 100 m.

The intervention was technical and very complicated, ”according to the firefighters.

A fire last December on another TDF site near Marseille

"The hypothesis of an arson is preferred, two separate fires having been observed on the spot", according to a source close to the investigation.

TDF announced that it had lodged a complaint against X. “A total of 1.5 million people are cut off from all TNT and radio channels: the stations of Radio France, France Culture, France Inter, France Musique, France Bleu Limousin and Périgord ”on Haute-Vienne, part of Corrèze, Charente and Nord-Dordogne.

The incident took place the day before the broadcast, for the first time, of France Bleu's morning radio on France 3 Limousin.

The morning film of France Bleu Limousin was nonetheless launched on France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Tuesday from 7 am to 8:40 am.

The France 3 transmitter, also located in the city, was not affected by the fire, according to the radio.

Last December, a fire broke out at another TDF site, near Marseille, depriving 3.5 million people in the South-East of France of radio and TV for a few days.

An investigation had been opened by the prosecution. 

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