Rouen Chemical Fire

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UPDATE: Fire at French chemical factory 'will burn for days'

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Thick black smoke billowed over the northern French town of Rouen on Thursday after a spectacular fire broke out at a chemical factory, forcing authorities to close schools and warn of potential pollution risks for the nearby Seine river.

The blaze broke out in the early hours of Thursday at the Lubrizol plant in Rouen - a large factory that is classified as Seveso, or high risk, because of the nature of the chemicals it produces.


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"Let's not panic about this situation, but we need to be very careful," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told RTL radio, adding that "there is nothing to make us believe there is a risk from the smoke."


Castaner later said that it could take days before the fire is extinguished.


"The fight they will have to wage to get the situation fully under control will take several days, maybe even weeks," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said after arriving at the site.


But later on Thursday morning the government's top official for the region said the fire at the chemical plant poses a pollution risk for the nearby Seine river.


"We're still fighting the blaze, with the risk that pollution could spill into the Seine if retention ponds overflow," Pierre-Andre Durand told journalists.

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Re: UPDATE: Fire at French chemical factory 'will burn for days'
 
So what happened?


The residents of Rouen were awakened in the early hours of Thursday by a several massive explosions. The explosions came from the nearby Lubrizol factory, where fire had broken out at 2.50am.

The fire started in a storage facility for packaged products such as lubricant additives, according to a spokesman for the company. The series of large explosions, described as "very shocking" by local residents, were caused by oil that had leaked due to the fire.


Around 150 firefighters were quickly at the scene and began work to contain the blaze, but as dawn broke on Thursday the massive plume of smoke from the factory could be seen from several kilometres away.


Is there a risk to local people?


The factory is designed a Seveso site, which means there is a high risk because of the toxic nature of the chemicals it produces. Owned by an American parent company, the Rouen factory produces additives for oils and industrial lubricants.


Although the enormous plume of thick black smoke looks highly dramatic, local officials say that there is "no acute toxicity in the main molecules" at least according to initial analysis.


However the Préfecture of Seine-Maritime has put in place a series of precautionary measures. A 500m exclusion zone has been put in place around the factory.


Residents outside the zone have not been evacuated, but have been advised to stay indoors and "limit their movements as much as possible".

re: French chemical factory explosion - what we know so far
 
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What is a Seveso site?


There are 1,300 sites in France, and they are factories or manufacturing plants that have been identified as risky by authorities because of their "association with certain hazardous industrial activities".


It's named after the town of Seveso in Italy, which was the site of a devastating industrial accident in 1976 which saw high levels of the toxic chemical dioxin released into the air. The disaster prompted a Europe-wide approach to identifying and classifying high-risk sites.


You can click here to get an interactive version of the map of Seveso sites in France.
 
AT #Rouen , the inhabitants wake up with headaches, it rains hydrocarbons and a cloud of smoke obscures the sky of the whole region but we are told on all the TVs that #Chirac liked the calf's head ... #Castaner , no danger.

The Seveso plant burns at #Rouen it's raining with acid and gas, the fish are dying, but the government is formal: No danger. If tomorrow you have fins or a hand on the forehead, do not panic, #LREM will send you Agnès Buzyn or ... an aquarium.

 
"There is a trivialization of a major industrial disaster" to #Rouen but it does not worry too much
@BFMTV who follows the official version to the letter so that people continue to work in the toxic fog ... #IncendieRouen#Lubrizol

Despite acute symptoms of intoxication in thousands of people, #Macron did not even take the time to tweet about #Rouen . It is #Castaner who provides the minimum service so as usual, he says things without knowing. Chaos #EnMarche ...

In Rouen, angry people in front of the prefecture. They ask for "The Truth" as well as the "Lubrizol Closure" after the Seveso factory fire yesterday.

What's going on #Rouen is simply inadmissible. The government continues its rhetoric while thousands of people risk being sick.
#Lubrizol#Incendie Local prize pool to help residents decontaminate: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8iAvXZ
 
Omerta on a major industrial disaster near Paris
In the middle of summer (July 3, 2019), a strategic installation of Europe's largest wastewater treatment plant is completely destroyed by fire thirty kilometres from the capital. It will take between three and five years to rebuild it, at the cost, in the meantime, of a serious pollution of the Seine. This site has been experiencing ever more serious claims for several years. Its management is marred by unprecedented diversions in public procurement. An absolute disaster, which evokes only worrying indifference.

The security of everyday life will be at the heart of the upcoming municipal elections: this continuum of security that we have consolidated and strengthened is an opportunity for our territories.
:scared::scared::scared:
 
And if the biggest screen of smoke, it was him? #VironsMacron

Exact, seen 500 meters from the factory this Friday morning. The smell was very strong at that moment.

Incendie à Rouen : six questions sur une catastrophe industrielle « impressionnante »
Fire in Rouen: six questions about an "impressive" industrial disaster
The gigantic fire at the Lubrizol chemical plant is out, but many questions remain unanswered.
Publié le 27 septembre 2019 à 15h02 9-11 minute Read:
The fire is now extinguished, but concerns remain. In the wake of the spectacular fire at the Lubrizol factory in Rouen, which fortunately did not kill, residents of the city and surrounding areas worry about the health and environmental consequences of this industrial disaster, and wonder on the dangerousness of the site. It must be said that many questions remain unanswered. "The Obs" brings you its lighting.


Update: 28.09.2019 09:14

 
Fire in Rouen: impressive images shot by a firefighter during the intervention on the site of the Lubrizol factory https://francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/incendie/incendie-d-un-site-seveso-a-rouen/video-incendie-de-rouen-les-images-impressionnantes-tournees-par-un-pompier-lors-de-l-intervention_3638863.html#xtor=CS2-765-[autres]- via @franceinfo

After several days of embarrassing silence, #Jadot tells us that the government is lying to us, which is indeed clear enough. He had better things to do this weekend? #Rouen#Lubrizol#IncendieRouen

#Lubrizol Very tense atmosphere in front of the room where the community council of the metropolis of #Rouen . Protesters try to get inside and demand the resignation of the prefect.


#Rouen : we went from "there is nothing to fear" to "as soon as the analyzes are done, we will publish the results". The health of our fellow citizens is no better than that for these nickel-plated feet, who nevertheless did not come to power in a coup d'etat ...

"Taking advantage of the relaxation of the regulations implemented by the government, the prefect authorized at the beginning of the year an increase in the capacity of dangerous products in the plant. #Rouen That's why he reacted so quickly? #Lubrizol#Incendie
 
Something's not right. Is this current situation a hack or internal sabotage for more chaos?
Pure speculation on my part, but an interesting coincidence, never the less.

"The substations are very old, there have already been several alerts from the CHSCT," said a unionist. This morning, 4 kilometers from #Lubrizol , a Seveso high-threshold plant has been "shut down" due to an electrical incident >http://leparisien.fr/economie/rouen
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A chemical plant in Grand-Quevilly, near Rouen, classified Seveso high threshold, was "put out" part of the morning on Tuesday. The judgment was ordered at 7:45, announced the prefecture of Seine-Maritime. A few days after the Lubrizol factory fire in Rouen, firefighters were called for an alert on the Boréalis site. This fertilizer production plant is classified Seveso "high" threshold.
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Following a loss of power due to the heating of an element in the main substation, the plant immediately initiated its "internal organization plan" to secure facilities. According to the prefecture, there was no fire in the facilities.

The internal organization plan (POI) is the procedure "when there is an incident of low or medium level that he (the industrial, Ed) is able to ensure alone," says the chief of staff of the prefect , Benedict Lemaire. On the contrary, a PPI (special plan of intervention) involves a risk of incident on the outside, as it was the case Thursday during the fire of the factory Lubrizol.

Fire or not?

In Seine-Maritime, "there is a trigger of POI every week," says the chief of staff, explaining that the prefecture issued a statement on the situation in Borealis "given the particular context" and the consequences of the accident industrial Lubrizol. "Firefighters are there to make sure there are problems with the generator," he insisted.

The representative CGT within the plant, Christine Poupin, assures for its part that there has been a fire at Boréalis. "The transformer T1, that of the general power supply of the site, suffered a frank cut of electricity. There was a fire and the fire department necessarily intervened, "she explains.

She adds that "the substations are very old. There have already been several CHSCT alerts on this issue. At this point, nothing is working in the factory. Christine Poupin admits, however, that to her knowledge, "at this stage, there is no risk to the safety of the facilities. But we do not like it, it generates a big stress among the employees ".

"Fortunately, we control"

"It does not happen every day fortunately but we control," says a union official of the plant interviewed on France Bleu. "It's not Lubrizol, not a fire, it's a technical problem. We must reassure, "he adds.

The Boréalis plant is approximately 50 hectares in size and located in the port area of Rouen, about four kilometers southeast of the Lubrizol plant. It employs 300 people and manufactures fertilizers and stores products such as ammonia and nitric acid.

"Largest production site of Boréalis Chimie", this plant "produces fertilizers for agriculture as well as solutions to reduce the pollutant emissions of industries and road transport," says the company on its website. In addition, "the site produces industrial intermediaries used in the nitrogen fertilizer production chain and also in other industries (metallurgical, agro-food, etc.)".

FOLLOW - Factory fire #Lubrizol at #Rouen "No asbestos fiber has been detected in the air" according to the authorities. France Bleu said a few days ago that a roof of 8,000 m2 containing asbestos went up in smoke during the fire.

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#Lubrizol What is this black water drawn 50 km from Rouen in Bray country in the pond where the cows of Jean-Michel Dallier, breeder, drink? Transparency and support measures required. Those who have seen the soot rain on them should not pay for the damage.
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And what did I say from the first day? It is a huge SCANDALE SANITARY and ENVIRONMENTAL but there is worse ... Surprise !...#Rouen#Lubrizol#pollution#Sante @agnesbuzyn @EPhilippePM @Elisabeth_Borne @EmmanuelMacron @CCastaner#journalistes @AssembleeNat#censure#omerta
 
After #Lubrizol the announced support measures for all impacted agricultural producers are inadequate. I invite the many farmers to come to the public meeting that I organize Wednesday, October 9 at 14:30 in the rural home of Neuville-Ferrières.

#Lubrizol#Rouen : the prefecture has just published the first measurements of dioxins ("wipes" method) on 5 sites. There is not only a problem with the method (no comparative ref), but also the choice of sites: most are outside the panache. [1/3]

Lubrizol: "The Informed" are astonished ... of the doubt that wins the population
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Fourth propagandists in the service of neoliberals ....

Another question to @INERIS_fr : at the time of the measurement, it was raining #Rouen What is the influence on the results #Lubrizol#lubrizoltransparence
 
Thanks for the material.

This story reminds me what C's said a long time ago, something like the fact PTB will try desperately to control more and more things that cannot be and at some point people will start to understand and see what they couldn't, helped by the wave and the growth in consciousness.

Honestly, it's so BIG when you read at newspaper, social media and watch the interviews, so much crap, dishonesty, lies... once again, in a sense, it's funny and interesting to observe this...

Unfortunately, it's less fun for people who suffer directly from that incident and look for answers...
 
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