This Wednesday, December 18, all people located in a perimeter near Moutiers were informed by SMS of an exercise in progress on the Titanobel site, an explosives manufacturing factory.
The alert announced an explosion. It is in reality a fire which was started as part of the Special Intervention Plan, a local system aimed at protecting populations, property and the environment from the particular risks linked to industrial installations.
« Coordination interservices »
The exercise went well from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. “The scenario of the exercise: the outbreak of a fire on a pallet truck. The objective was to test the information chains, inter-service coordination and actions implemented by each security actor (departmental fire and rescue service, town halls, gendarmerie, national police, state services) », Indicates the prefecture of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Alert device
“On this occasion, the FR-Alert system was tested in order to warn residents of nearby municipalities of potential risks within their territory. Exercises of this type are regularly scheduled by state services in order to best prepare for managing the risks and crises that surround us. Thus, four exercises were organized in 2024.”
