A fire is still in progress at midday.
He declared himself, this Monday morning in a sawmill in the north of Bas-Rhin, causing seven minor injuries, including six firefighters, and destroying three hectares of vegetation (six football fields), we learned from the firefighters. and the prefecture.
“The firefighters (…) were alerted (…) shortly before 8 a.m. for a significant release of smoke in a sawmill in Mothern”, indicated in a press release the departmental fire and rescue service of Bas-Rhin ( SDIS 67).
Origin not specified
When they arrived, an 800 m² hangar was already "totally ablaze" and the flames had spread "to a second 1,500 m² hangar", according to the same source.
Staff from the site and neighboring buildings were evacuated, according to SDIS 67.
The "violent" fire, the origin of which has not been specified, then spread "to a stock of pallets of around 3,000 m²", destroying for the time being four storage buildings of around 15,000 m² , according to the SDIS.
Three hectares of vegetation located in the middle of wood stocks also went up in smoke, according to the Bas-Rhin prefecture.
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