Fire “is circumscribed with a drop of intensity but it is not yet under control. It develops more but it is still important “, said the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture in the early evening on Friday.
Around 21 h 30, near 160 firefighters were still on site. “We always have 20 spears into action and tries to approach as close to the source of the fire” , said Captain Yvon Bot, prognosticating its complete extinction by “a few days” .
The fire started around 14 h 00 in a textile warehouse and footwear 10 000 m2. There are no casualties “and all site employees were evacuated” , told firefighters and a police source.
The RER resumes, A86 remains cut
The warehouse fire caused the interruption of the A86 motorway and the disruption of traffic for several hours RER B.
The RER started to circulate down the line gradually to 21 h 50, and the traffic should return to normal for the resumption on Saturday morning, said the SNCF AFP.
According to the fire chief, “the smoke is too important” , especially to reopen the highway. “as soon as we try to do, but there is little chance that it will be reopened tonight,” , has he said on Friday.
Saturated fire Call
Firefighters were saturated with calls Friday night in the Ile-de-France because of the smell of burned off by the spectacular warehouse fire.
“We are saturated with calls because of the fire in the warehouse, it is necessary that people avoid to call 112 and 18 for that” , said a spokesman for the fire brigade of Paris, which also operate in the departments of the inner suburbs.
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