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Dec 16 2024 at 7:43 p.m.
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With the Christmas holidays approaching, the timing couldn't be worse. A fire broke out on Friday December 13, around 9 p.m., on the production site of the Max Vauché chocolate factory, located in Controis-en-Sologne (Loir-et-Cher), south of Blois. With an area of approximately 800 m2the main building was destroyed by flames.
Around fifty firefighters mobilized
This housed the workshop and stocks in anticipation of the end-of-year celebrations. The fire caused no casualties. In total, “53 firefighters were mobilized and 16 engines deployed on site” to contain the fire, indicated, in a thread on X (formerly Twitter), the prefect of Loir-et-Cher, Xavier Pelletier.
The State representative in the department also underlined that “the emergency response made it possible to save the sales area”.
The operation lasted all night on the chocolate factory site. Some of the employees – the Controis-en-Sologne site has 35 – witnessed, helpless and in shock, the destruction of their production tool.
Xavier Pelletier also indicated that he was organizing, this Monday, December 16, “a meeting to allow the leaders [de l’entreprise] to quickly emerge from this desolate situation and regain production capacity in a crucial period.”
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