Firefighters in intervention (illustration).
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F. Brenon / 20Minutes
This Thursday morning, a major fire broke out in the premises of a subcontractor of the company LME, in Trith-St-Léger, near Valenciennes, in the North.
Four firefighters were slightly injured during the intervention, we learned from Sdis du Nord.
The fire broke out shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday morning in the industrial building of a subcontractor of the LME steelworks located on rue Victor-Hugo.
A large plume of smoke was emerging, making it difficult to travel around the site to the A2 motorway.
Gas cylinders and oil tank
Many firefighters were dispatched to the scene.
They tackled the flames with two water hoses.
The intervention was all the more delicate as an oil tank and many acetylene bottles were in the building in the grip of the fire.
According to Sdis, two of these gas bottles exploded around 8 a.m.
At around 9 a.m., the firefighters managed to extinguish the fire.
They took care of around fifteen heat-impacted gas bottles in order to cool them by immersing them in water.
The Sdis also specifies that polluted water retention tanks were in the building affected by the fire but that there is no leak to deplore.
During the intervention, four firefighters from the Anzin barracks "were slightly injured", reports Sdis.
The latter were transported to the Valenciennes hospital center.
The causes of the fire are not yet known.
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