RTL Infos – Fires not so rare: Wind turbine fire filmed near Briey

Wind turbine fires are always spectacular. This is what Info Trafic Lorraine et Frontière (ITLF) was able to observe, which shared photos and a video where we see the fire bursting from the top of the wind turbine, as well as flaming debris falling on the ground. The scene was filmed in the Briey area. It would be a machine from the Anoux wind farm.

As reported by the Républicain Lorrain, the alert was given by a farmer around 9:45 p.m. Firefighters from the Mancieulles barracks went to the scene, before being joined by reinforcements from Briey.

The RL specifies that there was no human presence observed in this sector, and that the fire did not spread. A security perimeter was set up and electricity production was interrupted.

This is not the first time that such a fire has been observed in France. According to the industrial accidentology reference base, we have identified 31 fires occurred on wind turbines between 2006 and 2022.