Firefighters were busy Saturday to extinguish the embers still smolder the remains of a warehouse in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), the spectacular fire Friday had long cut RER B and the A86 motorway north of Paris.
The fire was mastered Saturday morning but residual embers continued late in the day to release “some smoke,” he told AFP the fire chief Yvon Bot.
Using mobile plant public works, such as crawler excavators, firefighters still in the early evening were clearing the charred remains of the store, including a collapsed slab, in order to reach the smoldering embers below.
“C is what is going to happen until the end, all that remains to do: turn off the embers, “summarized the captain Bot
.” It will go on like this all night at least and we will notify tomorrow (Sunday) morning, “he added. “We’re here to complete extinction.”
Fifty firefighters equipped with six spears and a dozen vehicles were still there in the early evening.
Due to impressive smoke clearing, the A86 motorway and the RER B had to be cut in both directions north of the capital on Friday afternoon.
The traffic RER B, interrupted “for security reasons” between the Gare du Nord station in Paris and Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis), returned to normal on Saturday morning after a gradual recovery Friday night.
The A86 has in turn fully reopened to traffic Only late Saturday morning. On this day of holiday departures orange classified in the Paris region, it remained closed until about 10:00 between La Courneuve and Le Bourget, until 11:00 in the opposite direction from Rosny-sous-Bois and La Courneuve, causing caps on the A3 in the morning.
“We had not opened up because the visibility was not good. She is now, and we have verified that the floor has suffered no inconvenience, so the vehicles can run it without risks, “do we explained to the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis.
The fire started around 2:00 p.m. Friday in a textile warehouse and shoes of 10,000 m2, causing no casualties but causing major traffic jams north of the capital.
The cause of the fire is not yet known. According to the prefecture, the scientific police will be on site in the coming days, when the rubble will be cooled
4/18/2015 7:37:42 p.m. -. Bobigny (AFP) – © 2015 AFP
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