Near Toulouse, a fire takes place in the middle of the night in a hangar storing fertilizer
By Lucie Fraisse
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The alert was given around 11 p.m., and this Friday, October 21, 2022, at 7 a.m., the firefighters of the Upper Garonne were still on site, fighting a fire that broke out in an agricultural shed in the town of Pouy de Tougessouthwest of Toulouse.
In a shed with fertilizer
The fire broke out in a 200m² hangar in which were authorized 1100 bales of haybut also fifteen tons of fertilizer.
“When the emergency services arrived, the building was completely ablaze, explain the firefighters. Our main mission was to preserve the stock of fertilizers in order to avoid any risk of explosion or hardening. »
Two chicken coops of 80m² to protect
Two lances were used to fight the fire, protect the stock of fertilizer and two 80m² chicken coops.
However, despite their intervention, the firefighters announce that the complete extinction of the building is impossible, “due to the instability of the structure and the presence of numerous bales of straw being consumed. »
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