A cottage, located on the edge of the D.955, fell prey to flames this Saturday, around 8:45 p.m. At midnight, the flames were still active and firefighters were preparing for a very long intervention. The road had to be closed to traffic.
The firefighters were preparing, at 11:30 p.m., this Saturday, September 28, for a very long operation with a thatched roof fire on a 115 m2 house, located at a place called Mezelle, in Marboué, on the edge of the D.955, which was closed from Châteaudun and Logron.
The fire was still very active three hours after it broke out, around 8:45 p.m., for reasons that were not specified.
Miscellaneous facts A car on fire while crossing Marboué
The four occupants are safe and sound. They were not injured and were released to their families.
Fifty firefighters from the centers of Châteaudun, Bonneval, Brou, Arrou (Vald’Yerre), Bailleau-le-Pin, Lucé, Alluyes and Chartres were mobilized.
Eleven machines were used, including a 10,000 liter tanker truck, to deal with water supply difficulties.
Around midnight, the extinguishing was done using three lances, but a fourth was also used on a large scale.
“The thatch burns and is consumed, it is therefore necessary to remove it,” indicated the column leader, Captain David Coeur-Joly
For the firefighters, this intervention, in the middle of flames and thick smoke, was not without risk.
Miscellaneous facts A house ravaged by flames in Châtillon-en-Dunois (Vald’Yerre)
They nevertheless managed to protect the outbuildings.
The cottage being built on the edge of the D.955, the road linking Brou to Châteaudun was closed to traffic, in Logron and Châteaudun, by the gendarmes and agents of the Departmental Council. Diversions via Bonneval have been put in place.
All access ramps to the D.955 on either side of the fire have also been closed.
