During the night of Monday, May 5 to Tuesday, May 6, the fire Sappers of the Somme had to intervene in Lafresguimont-Saint-Martin (between Poix-de-Picardie and Aumale) for a wind turbine.
A intervention as unforeseen as it is dangerous. It was a wind turbine that caught fire.
On Monday, May 5, around 11 p.m., the Somme alert treatment center (CTA) received numerous calls signaling a fire on a wind turbine located in the commune of Lafresguimont-Saint-Martin. Rescuers quickly went on site and, with the support of the gendarmerie have established a security perimeter .
The wind turbine was able to be secured by the Enedis teams, which have cut the power supply to eliminate any risk.
“Thanks to the coordination between the various services and the intervention of a local elected official, the site was put in safety and the traffic was interrupted in order to prevent any overcotter” specify the firefighters.
Fire wind turbine: previous
This episode recalls that of March 2024 near the A29 motorway
In January 2019, a wind turbine broke into two near Formtery.
Wednesday, January 23, at the beginning of the afternoon, a wind turbine between camps and Formerie found itself on the ground. The steel mast broke in half. Debris found themselves scattered within a radius of 300 meters.
The road has been closed to remove all the pieces.
Innovate indicates that “This Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 1:17 p.m. Wednesday, a power outage on the Enedis electricity network caused the normal flag of the blades of one of the two wind turbines of Boutavent. This machine stopped in accordance with the safety processes and the preventive maintenance regularly carried out. Alas, for a still unknown reason, the blades of the other wind turbine have remained in the production position, when the generator does not Sleeled more.
As a security measure, innovate has stopped the other 21 wind turbines of the same model, while waiting to understand the reason for the defect, and its perfect correction.
The two wind turbines were assembled and exploited from September 2011 by Innovent. Innovate then sold them to a new operator
The wind turbine is a tourist attraction. People came on foot or by car on the small road observe the machine. “It is not particularly reassuring”, “She will work much less well”were some of the reflections heard near the mast.
To prevent the curious people from approaching too close, innovate having the site watched by a guard.
