Burning smell in a crèche near Toulouse: twenty-seven children evacuated
A burning smell caused the intervention of firefighters and the evacuation of the nursery, this Wednesday in Merville. The alert was lifted mid-afternoon.
The Merville crèche staff were concerned this Wednesday, March 16 at the start of the afternoon because of a burning smell that was spreading in the crèche. This establishment welcomes around thirty children in the heart of the town, to the north-east of Toulouse. The firefighters, who came from Granada or the Delrieu barracks, were alerted at 1:50 p.m. and sent several devices to the scene.
In the meantime, the staff, as a precautionary measure, had the good reflex to evacuate the twenty-seven children present in the neighboring school. Chantal Aygat, mayor of Merville and vice-president of the community of municipalities responsible for Early Childhood competence, permanent assistant Jean-François Larroux, the gendarmerie and the municipal police joined them. On the spot, no flames, no fire, just a smell which escaped it seems from a look of rain.
Firefighters inspected everything. A long job that ended up bearing fruit: they discovered cigarette butts that had been thrown into a crawl space. Badly extinguished, these butts could have favored the combustion of greasy paper which would have caused the disturbing smell. The alert was finally lifted shortly before 4 p.m.
The staff of the crèche helped gendarmes, municipal agents and young firefighters watched over the children. The little ones didn’t realize anything, had their snack, even got to see a cartoon while waiting for their parents to pick them up. There was no panic. This evening, the technical manager of the buildings of the CCHT (Community of communes of Hauts Tolosans) monitors the building in the evening so that the recovery takes place tomorrow safely.