An important device relief and security has been deployed in the hypercenter of Clermont this Friday, January 3. A fire started in a accommodation located at 45 rue de la République, on the first floor, above a hair salon.
The alert given at 8:30 a.m.
The alert was given around 8:30 a.m. All surrounding businesses and apartments were evacuated. “I went out around 9 a.m.,” says a neighbor of the damaged accommodation. There was smoke everywhere.”
Since then, he has been waiting in the cold to be able to return home. A security perimeter set up by the gendarmes and soldiers of Operation Sentinel closed Rue de la République from Place Corroyer to Rue du Général De Gaulle.
The fire was extinguished around 10:30 a.m.
Around 10:30 a.m., firefighters managed to contain the fire. They are expected to spend part of the day clearing the site and checking whether the business below and neighboring homes have not been damaged.
-The circumstances of the fire remain to be determined.
