“Around 4 pm, I was serving a client. I went to the reserve. I saw smoke. I immediately evacuated the customer and the employee, ”summarizes on the spot, still in shock, Dominique Legoff, the pharmacist at the Place des Épars, in Chartres. His pharmacy, affected by a fire on Monday, April 12, is located between the LCL and Banque Populaire banks, in the city center, on the ground floor of a four-story building.
Several residents evacuated, intoxicated police officers
Four residents, who were in the apartments above, were evacuated. There are no injuries. Six police officers, first responders, were poisoned by the smoke. National and municipal police have secured the places and access to the back streets of the disaster in order to protect passers-by and allow fifty-two firefighters, from Chartres, Lucé, Jouy and Gallardon, to intervene.
Lances were used on the ground and then the large ladder was deployed.
“There was a risk of propagation, vertically, to homes up to the fourth floor, through ducts. The fire, also threatening the roof terrace of the Banque Populaire, was stopped. We are masters of the fire ”
Captain Jennifer David (in charge of the emergency system.)
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The firefighters used a large amount of foam to smother the flammable vapors. According to the officer, the maneuvers will continue for part of the night.
There is a risk of collapse on a party wall between the pharmacy and a garage.
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A rescue and clearing team had to make a breakthrough and, possibly, place props according to their expertise on the building.
ERDF agents were forced to cut the power supply to a transformer, depriving a hundred people of electricity. The police will have to wait until Tuesday to secure the premises in order to conduct an investigation into the origin of the disaster. The scientific police will visit the site.
Thierry delaunay
Photos: Quentin Reix
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