“The sanitary situation is stabilized”, notes the prefecture in a statement and announces that fire, triggered at the end of December, should be definitively off in a few days.
Le Monde with AFP
Since December 26, the fire of a private waste recycling center located in Saint-Chamas, in Bouches-du-Rhône, many residents have expressed themselves incomplete by smoke clearances. The incident should be definitively off in a few days, announced, Wednesday, January 12, the prefecture in a statement.
“The completion of the building’s deconstruction operations, to devote the definitive fire extinction, was shifted by a few days,” she said. “A large part of the building is nevertheless, already demolished and accessible and will be drowned”, according to the same source, which specifies that “the definitive extinguishing operations [drowning operations]” will be started on Thursday.
“The sanitary situation is, for the time being, stabilized”, note the prefecture. “Public Health France reports a drop in the number of reports issued by the inhabitants and a lack of significant returns from city medicine and emergency services since the beginning of the fire,” she writes in his statement . The situation is followed by the Regional Health Agency and Atmosud Agents, an approved Air Monitoring Association, added the prefecture that “no water table supplying the drinking water system, or wells. authorized, is concerned by the incident “.
” Water curtain “
The prefecture forced the company Recyclage concept 13, located on this municipality of about 8 000 inhabitants on the banks of the pond of Berre, about fifty kilometers from Marseille and stored in its 3,200 meter warehouse Squares of the waste brought by industrialists, in order to sort them, then resell them to recycling companies, to demolish the building so that the soldiers of fire can, finally, access all the detritus. “The firefighters of the departmental fire and rescue service of Bouches-du-Rhône have, moreover, put in place a reinforced water curtain limiting smoke discharges,” continued the prefecture.
At the height of the fire, the pollution reached 800 micrograms of fine particles per cubic meter of air at certain hours of the day, levels comparable to those experienced Beijing during pollution peaks. The daily alert threshold to preserve health is ten times lower.