21 firefighters from the companies of Cognac, Angoulême and Rouillac secured the street between the Elisée Mousnier college, and the rue de la Société Vinicole. “There is a closed gas leak, we do not know where she is underground. We have big assumptions, at the level of a sticker, that is to say a connection between the main pipe and a smaller towards the dwellings, “explains Captain Matthieu Cordier, intervention manager and manager of the center of Training in Jarnac. The leak would be due to the wear and tear of the networks according to the firefighters.
In the early evening, three people from GRDF were intervening in the street, to unravel the way and find the origin of the leak. An operation under the supervision of a firefighters van because “the gas continues to flee”, in order to be able to detect it more easily. A company specializing in road works is also present on site.
The firefighters were present on both sides of rue Élisée Mousnier.
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-Fortunately, at a time when the operation began, the students of the Elisée Mousnier college had left the scene. “We had to evacuate housing from the ark (a structure that takes care of people with disabilities, editor’s note), at number 32. There were five people with mental disabilities and a supervisor. They have just been evacuated, and are either in families or in other homes, ”specifies Nadège Skoller, elected in Cognac. The residents of the home for the elderly, Alain de Raimond have, on the other hand, not been evacuated. Firefighters recall that natural or bottled gas remains dangerous. “It is advisable to maintain well, the flexibles in particular, which have expiration dates,” recalls Captain Cordier.
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