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Thick black smoke rises above the A86 near the Courneuve, 17 April 2015 – MARTIN BUREAU / AFP

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The A86 motorway, cut north of Paris since Friday afternoon due to significant smoke clearances due to a warehouse fire in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis) thoroughly reopened on Saturday at 11 am, announced Bison smart.

In this day of holiday departures classified orange in Paris, the A86 was closed until about 10am between La Courneuve and Le Bourget, and until 11 am in the opposite direction from Rosny-sous-Bois and La Courneuve, causing traffic jams on the A3 which is reabsorbed in the late morning.

Poor visibility

“We did not reopen before because visibility was not good. She is now, and we have verified that the floor has not suffered inconvenience, so the vehicles can run it without risks, “do we explained to the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis.

“It is believed that the fire is out, but there are some residual foci,” is it added the same source. “A construction company is providing heavy equipment for firefighters, such as crawler excavators, helping to clear the rubble.”

“The main focus is off but there are still many remaining cases, easily accessible by water from fire hoses, which always cause significant smoke, “explained early in the morning the fire chief Yvon Bot.

These hard to reach lights are found under rubble and collapsed under the slab of the warehouse and the goods are still burning. “The extinction probably will last several days,” he had said.

Fifty firefighters equipped with six spears and ten machines were on hand Saturday morning, had he continued.

Traffic RER B, however, is back to normal on Saturday morning. It was interrupted for several hours Friday “for security reasons” between the Gare du Nord station in Paris and Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis), before gradually return in the evening.

Fire victimless

The fire started around 14h Friday in a textile warehouse and footwear 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 flames are completely extinguished and cooled website.