A fire broke out during the night from Saturday to Sunday around midnight, near Rennes, on the site of an industrial waste processing company classified as Seveso high threshold, without causing any injuries, we learned from the prefecture on Sunday.
The fire was extinguished around 3 a.m. and “the absence of wind during the night limited the dispersion of smoke,” the Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture said in a press release.
The authorities assure that the “vertical plume (…) did not reach the first homes 600 m away from the site to the east”.
The fire did not cause any injuries, according to a police source, who specified that around 10 tonnes of waste, located in a pit eight meters deep, burned.
If the origin of the fire is not yet known, it could be linked to a reaction resulting from a chemical incompatibility between certain products, continues the same source.
The company “Triadis Rennes”, located in the Haie des Cognets industrial zone in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, collects, sorts and provides initial treatment of more than 700 tonnes of hazardous household and industrial waste such as solvents, phytosanitary products, asbestos and land polluted with heavy metals.
The site is classified ICPE Seveso high threshold, due to the nature of this waste.
“In accordance with the regulations on ICPE Seveso classified sites, the firefighting water was stored in retention to be analyzed and treated,” specifies the prefecture.
