A spike in Google searches, dozens of social media posts, etc.
Residents of the metropolis of Rouen (Seine-Maritime) sought to understand, last night, where "these abnormal noises" came from.
Still haunted by the specter of the Lubrizol factory fire in the fall of 2019, “and in the international context of the war in Ukraine, that was enough,” says
Paris Normandie
.
To worry.
The local information site,
Actu.fr
, noted some comments from Internet users, around one o'clock in the morning.
It's been 20min there's this noise in Rouen nobody knows where it's coming from lol the timing with the current context is well chosen there pic.twitter.com/NnaER57eYm
— ⵕoⴼⴰⵉⴽ Moad ⵣ 📷 (@RofaikM) March 3, 2022
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The population of several municipalities assimilating for many this nocturnal din to "a big jet engine".
The people of Rouen, we agree it's 1 a.m. and there's a weird noise outside, it sounds like fighter planes
— Maruego🇮🇹🇲🇦 (@ayouub768__) March 3, 2022
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Reassuring (or not), the noise came from a Seveso-classified factory.
High threshold.
The Boréalis industrial site - which produces fertilizer in Grand-Quevilly, at the gates of Rouen - announced, around three o'clock in the morning, via a press release published on the Allo Industrie site that a "production workshop" was shut down automatically, "following a breakdown".
“Securing an ammonia production workshop”
It is "the safety" - "of the ammonia production workshop", will specify France Bleu Normandie - which generated these nuisances "following the venting of water vapor".
And Boréalis management added, in the middle of the night: “The situation is under control by our teams.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this noise.
“On the site of the prefecture of Seine-Maritime, no mention of the incident.
Lack of public information, outdated alert system, lack of coordination of State services, local elected officials and health professionals left aside, etc.
This is, in summary, the conclusions of the commission of inquiry created in the Senate following the fire at Lubrizol.
France recently announced that it is adopting “cell broadcast” technology.
Already deployed in many countries for several years (often for weather alerts), this device will send an emergency alert to all phones located in the same area without the owner having to install any application.
The system should be tested this summer during full-scale simulations in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Rouen.
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