2023-08-13 03:17:00
The fire broke out in a festive room, on the French side, rue Jules Guesde, in Wattrelos. The roadway has the particularity of being shared along its length with that of the rue herseautoise du Petit Oudenarde.
The localization therefore involved a Franco-Belgian rescue operation to ensure the best reactivity.
The truck of the French firefighters on their side of the road, rue Jules Guesde, and the truck of the Belgian firefighters on their side of the road, rue du Petit Oudenarde. ©EdA
The French police and that of the Mouscron police station worked together on the ground.
The ladder of the Belgian firefighters was deployed above the disaster site platform. ©EdA
Ditto for the men of the fire: it was first a pump from across the Quiévrain that arrived. It was then joined in stride by two pumpers and a cistern from the Mouscron barracks, a self-ladder from the Évregnies barracks, then, finally, a few more French reinforcements.
Police and firefighters from Belgium and France worked together. When our picture was taken, at 4:15 a.m., the fire was under control. ©EdA
The reason for the fire is unknown. It was a local resident, on the Herseautois side, who called the yelled police station and 112 following hearing explosions and seeing the flames, he told us.
Police and firefighters from Belgium and France worked together. When our picture was taken, at 4:15 a.m., the fire was under control. ©EdA
The fire remained very localized and, with no wind, the towering column of smoke rising vertically did not cause a problem.
Police and firefighters from Belgium and France worked together. When our picture was taken, at 4:15 a.m., the fire was under control. ©EdA
As a precaution, the nearby “Les Glycines” nursing home reacted very quickly by closing all the windows of residents that would have remained open.
Coming from France, the section was closed at rue de la Citadelle towards which you had to branch off. ©EdA
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