A destructive fire plunged the inhabitants of Froidos into darkness and stupor this Tuesday, November 19, from 3 a.m. Indeed, for reasons that the gendarmes of the community of brigades of Clermont-en-Argonne will try to determine, a large fire ignited the car garage located on route de Bar-le-Duc.
When the first rescue machines arrived, the entire 1,000 m2 was completely ablaze and several explosions caused by the explosion of acetylene cans resounded in the dark night swept by a violent wind, which fanned the flames.
“The first objective was to secure the intervention of personnel while limiting the spread to the adjoining house, which was partially impacted,” noted Commander Jean-Marc Lacroix, who directed the rescue operations and coordinated 54 firefighters since the column command post installed on the edge of the D998.
Electricity cut throughout the town
Despite the presence of several electric arcs, which slowed their progress, the firefighters deployed an automatic pivoting ladder and tore off the tiles of the house to channel the fire. Coming from the centers of Clermont, Seuil-d'Argonne, Verdun, Bar-le-Duc, Dieue and Trois Vallons, the firefighters pumped water from the Aire, which flows approximately 800 meters from the garage, to the using several machines.
A Technological Risks group was also mobilized to secure the intervention in the presence of Colonel Gavel, the director of the departmental fire and rescue service. At the same time, and while Enedis agents had suspended the electricity supply to the entire commune, the gendarmes and members of the Departmental Planning Agency marked a diversion due to the risk of explosion.
At 7:30 a.m., no injuries were reported but traffic was still blocked on this particularly busy route.
