A Bolloré Logistics industrial building containing lithium batteries is on fire this Monday evening, January 16, in Grand-Couronne, south of Rouen, we learned from SDIS76. According to “Paris-Normandie”, an explosion occurred inside the building and then a significant release of smoke was noted by the emergency services on site.
“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 intervention of the firefighters took place at 4:32 p.m.
A hundred firefighters are mobilized on site, including teams specializing in technological risks. Measures are underway by firefighters to assess the possible toxicity of the fumes.
No casualties
“There are many explosions, the adjoining building of 6,000 square meters contains 80,000 tires” he explained, fearing that the firefighters would be mobilized ” several days “according to the same source.
According to journalists on site, the smoke is visible for several kilometers around and the fire quickly grew. “At this stage, the first measurements taken by Sdis 76 do not reveal any particular worrying element”said the prefecture of Seine-Maritime in a press release.
According to Normandy News, 8,000 lithium batteries would have burned. 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”.
