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According to initial findings, the fire started from a car garage installed in one of the lots that make up the professional hangar. The mechanic was also the one who raised the alarm. But the fire has already spread and reached the praline production workshops. Fortunately, there were no injuries to report.
44 firefighters mobilized
Alerted at 3:25 p.m., the firefighters deployed significant resources, including five firefighting units, as well as a command and support post for the 44 firefighters mobilized. In this 1,500 m² building housing four companies, “the fire impacted a first part of 500 m² when we arrived,” said the commander of the rescue operations on site. The priority was to prevent it from spreading to the rest of the building, before spreading the fire using four hoses, one of which was deployed from the large ladder.
Four fire hoses were deployed to extinguish the fire, including one from the large fire ladder.
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The fire was almost already contained an hour later. Firefighters are now working on extinguishing44 hot spots before considering the clearance phase. But for the Kuku la praline workshops, it is already too late. Nicolas Tonon brings back a poor cardboard box saved from the fire. “Office business,” he whispers.
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The fire mobilized 44 firefighters this Sunday, November 10 in Lons.
“It’s terrible, because we have just opened the Kuku la praline boutique, last October 30, at the Palais des Pyrénées, in Pau, and we are going to open the Salon des Tokés, on November 30, right next door. At the time, when I was called about the fire, I told myself that we had lost everything. »
“We will get up again”
With his cap on his head and his eyes also misty, the partner Pierre Barthe blames the blow. They are the tenants of the majority of the London hangar, with the Kuku la praline but also the “Labo des toqués”, where the famous pralines are made, following the tradition inherited from “Manou”, the grandmother.
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“Between production equipment and storage, we probably have 200,000 euros that went up in smoke. And 20 years of career,” laments Pierre. He also had his recipe books on hand, “even though they’re mostly in my head.”
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Firefighters and police were mobilized in large numbers to the scene of the fire, avenue Philippe Lebon in Lons.
Alerted by duty assistant Arnaud Villedieu, the mayor of Lons Nicolas Patriarche is present on the scene. With the entourage of the two young partners, we are looking for an emergency solution to find a place to restart production, as the holidays approach and the opening of the Pau show. An online prize pool is planned to support them. And this outpouring of solidarity around them seems to console the two entrepreneurs a little. “We’re going to get up again,” says Pierre, wiping his tears.
