The damage is significant. A warehouse fire, which devastated 17,000 square meters, is underway on Friday, January 7 in Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis), north of Paris, reports the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis. There is no “no victim”, underlined the prefecture, adding that a security perimeter is set up because the fire is “mastered but not extinguished”, specified the BSPP.
Between “100 and 120 firefighters in Paris” are mobilized, as well as a “around twenty” firefighters from Val-d’Oise, said the Paris fire brigade (BSPP). “For the moment, the smoke does not disturb air traffic, nor rail”, inside they are “the clothes, the materials, whatever is still in storage” which is burning, the Paris fire brigade (BSPP) told AFP.
“The structure is weakened and part of it has collapsed”, clarified the BSPP which used the Robot Rex, already used during the fire of the cathedral of Notre-Dame. Equipped with a fire hose, this robot made it possible to progress in the enclosure “without committing human resources“.
The operation also required the intervention of the RSMU (urban search and rescue) unit equipped with “saws, chainsaws” who allowed “to open certain cells of the warehouse which were closed by metal curtains” in order to “make sure that the fire has not started in other cells”. The origin of the incident, which broke out around 3 a.m. on Friday, is unknown at this stage.
This vast warehouse, divided into several activities and used by “about twenty companies” including textile clothing and hygiene and maintenance products according to the prefecture, did not host any sensitive activity.