On this long weekend of 1is May, if the activity has remained “relatively calm“In the country, according to the gendarmerie and the firefighters of Nouméa and Dumbéa, a series of fires still struck the agglomeration.
Saturday, May 3, around 7:30 p.m., a fire broke out in the old house of the Gustave-Lods school guardian, in Logicoop, in the Ducos sector, which was already closed since its destruction during the riots. The fire was quickly controlled by the Nouméa firefighters, who were asked a few hours later, around 12:50 am, for another disaster launched on a symbolic site: the brand new BMX track inaugurated with great fanfare on April 19 in Tina. One of the prefabricated buildings, which welcomes offices, was destroyed by the flames. But the rapid intervention of firefighters made it possible to limit the damage to this infrastructure which cost 150 million francs.
Finally, Sunday, May 4, one of the devices parked in the parking lot of the Kenu-In shopping center, which is to start the demolition of this ravaged site during the insurrectional crisis, was burnt down at the end of the day, around 6 p.m. On site, the Dumbéa firefighters also extinguished a simultaneous fire starting around Conforama.
