A fire broke out on Thursday morning January 23 in the Finorga factory in Chasse-sur-Rhône (Isère), classified Seveso “high threshold”, without causing injuries, during an accidental leak of combustible product in contact with air, announced the prefecture.
This fire started at 4:20 a.m. “Fully mastered” by the departmental fire and rescue service at 6:25 a.m., specifies the prefecture of Isère. The product causing the loss is butyllithium, which is flammable on contact with air but degrades quickly when mixed with it. The quantities concerned were small because the product was highly diluted.
A fire the day before in Mayenne
Site personnel were all evacuated, but no one was injured. This event does not represent “No toxic risk either to the population or to the environment”, underlines the prefecture. The site will be subject to further verification during the course of the day, or even in the days to come.
This fire is added to that which occurred the day before, in Mayenne, at the Aprochim factory in Grez-en-Bouère, also classified as Seveso “high threshold”, who had not been injured either and had been “Quickly mastered”. The prefecture specified that the fire had only affected a hall “Not containing waste polluted by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)”, highly toxic substances.
This series of accidents on sensitive sites nevertheless risks raising the specter of that of the Lubrizol factory in Rouen, which still generates a lot of questions among the population.
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