A fire broke out this Friday, January 3, 2025 at the beginning of the afternoon in the coking plant of the vast ArcelorMittal France site in Dunkirk, employees had to be evacuated.
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A fire in the coking plant at the Arcelor Mittal site led to the evacuation of employees this Friday, January 3, 2025 in the early afternoon. No injuries were reported, according to management and a union official.
According to information reported by AFP, the fire broke out around 1:15 p.m.on a conveyor belt supplying the coking plant with coal. Immediately, internal firefighters intervened, then supported by external firefighters.“, indicated the management of ArcelorMittal France.
The ArcelorMittal site in Dunkirk covers 450 hectares and employs 3,200 people. Of this total, the coking plant only employs around 300 people but “if the coke oven coughs, the entire site coughs“, because without it, there is no cast iron to supply the blast furnaces, no gas for the Dunkirk district heating network, Gaëtan Lecocq, CGT general secretary ArcelorMittal Dunkerque, expressed alarm to AFP .
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