Pieces of facade fell near Square Meudon, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. The mayor requisitioned Civil Protection in order to secure the premises. Explanations.
It all started around 3 p.m. this Friday afternoon. Several pieces of the facade of a building, near Square de Meudon, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, came loose.
“The facade fell onto the restaurant terrace on the ground floor“says the mayor of the town, Olivier Maingain. Fortunately, no injuries were reported.
The firefighters quickly intervened to remove the unstable elements. The municipal architects then inspected the condition of the facade. The latter affirmed: there is a risk of other elements dropping out.
Faced with this situation, Mr. Maingain requisitioned Civil Protection, but there was a problem: they considered that this was not a priority situation. Worse, “They don’t have the necessary equipment“, she declared to the mayor. “The firefighters had to do this job“, Civil Protection would also have added.
Although amazed, Olivier Maingain did not give up and insisted: “I told the police officer that there is an obligation to requisition“.
“Civil Protection is not carrying out its mission, this is unheard of“, he concluded, still disappointed.
What civil protection responds to
“No request for intervention in this sense has been made in the system in which all incidents are notified”tells us Damien Dermaux from the Civil Security communications department.
“Civil Protection is not a front-line service. We support other emergency services; SIAMU, are the firefighters on site? Did the municipality bring in its stability engineer?“, adds the latter.
Around 6:25 p.m., we learned that Civil Protection, coming from Grivegnée (Liège), went to the scene of the incident. It takes more than an hour of travel before the team is on site.
More information to come.
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