A Bolloré Logistics industrial building containing lithium batteries is on fire Monday evening in Grand-Couronne, south of Rouen, we learned from SDIS76.
“About thirty trucks and a hundred firefighters are on site,” explained Lieutenant Guillaume Casada, in charge of press relations at the Seine-Maritime fire and rescue service, specifying that an emergency call triggering the The intervention of the firefighters took place at 4:32 p.m.
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Fire at the Bolloré Logistics #GrandCouronne site
The fire spread to a nearby warehouse housing tires.
It will probably require several hours of intervention.
A hundred firefighters are on site
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'No casualties'
“There are many explosions, the adjoining building of 6,000 square meters contains 80,000 tires,” he explained, fearing that the firefighters will be mobilized “for several days”, still according to the same source.
The Seine-Maritime prefecture said in a press release that “no casualties are to be deplored, the employees have been evacuated” from this site “subject to authorization and not Seveso”.
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