Mouscron: Cécile Fievez, “Madame Emergency Plan”, has left us

Wednesday 06th November 2024 04:09 AM

It was Cécile Fievez who was trusted.

Cécile Fievez, presenting her emergency and intervention plan to the bosses of Mouscron companies, in 2009. ©EDA

“The municipal emergency plan brings together the different services that intervene during a disaster: the police, firefighters, ambulances, etc. The principle is to bring together all those responsible so that they make the right decisions.” she explained in particular in our columns, in June 2015, on the occasion of the impressive fire at Goemaere.

From fires to the Tour de France

This rather discreet coordinator – even if some remember that she liked to give voice within the regional group “Odace” – was backed by her Seveso experience for around ten years, working in particular on industrial security in the aftermath of the Ghislenghien disaster.

Cécile Fievez – in yellow – within the group “Odace”. ©EDA

It was Ms. Fievez who worked behind the scenes on a host of events in Mouscron, both planned and unannounced.

We can cite in battle the H1N1 pandemic and the Mouscron heatwave plan in 2009, the risk management on the occasion of the Kortrijk Rally continually inviting itself into the roaring territory, the passage of the Tour du France in 2014 coupled, this summer there, also managing large gatherings on the occasion of the World Cup.

Alfred Gadenne used to make his comeback, presenting his upcoming files in September. In 2014 in particular, he exhibited it with his “Mrs. Emergency Plan” ©EDA

That same year, in October, it was still she who presented to the Provincial Governor, visiting Mouscron, the crisis center which had just been set up on rue de la Liesse.

It was she who, a year later, went to Fedasil headquarters in Brussels, with Alfred Gadenne, Jean-Michel Joseph and his divisional commissioner at the time, Dominique Debrauwere, in order to fully understand the reasons for and outcomes regarding the imminent arrival of hundreds of asylum seekers at the Refuge.

In the ZS Wapi Covid Task Force

With her expertise, the civil engineer then left her municipal functions to join, at the beginning of 2016, another Mouscronnois whom she had worked well with, Olivier Lowagie, when it came to establishing the emergency zone of Picardy Wallonia, including she was also responsible for the emergency planning department.

This prevention advisor was particularly part of the “Anticipation” division of the Covid unit in the midst of a health crisis.

To the family and loved ones of Cécile Fievez, L’Avenir sends its most sincere condolences.