The hearth in a Parisian waste sorting heart, not totally extinguished, has led “no air toxicity” in keeping with the authorities | EUROtoday

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On the site of the fire which declared itself the day before in the recycling plant of the syctom, north of Paris, in the 17ᵉ arrondissement, on April 8, 2025.

The spectacular hearth which ravaged, Monday night, a sorting heart of waste within the northwest of Paris was not fully extinguished, Tuesday April 8 at noon, however its depth was diminished and had led, in keeping with the general public authorities, no toxicity of the air.

Syctom, which offers the general public waste therapy service and of which premises, within the 17ᵉ arrondissement of Paris, close to the courthouse, have been ravaged by the flames, thus assured Tuesday that the primary measures of the tremendous particles have been “Systematically lower than regulatory thresholds”.

So there’s “No air toxicity” According to the latter, produced by the laboratory of the Police Prefecture and unveiled in a Syctom press launch, which manages family waste in 82 municipalities within the Paris area. The Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, and the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, had already assured that there was, a priori, no poisonous fumes.

Two hundred firefighters

The catastrophe, which began on Monday round 8 p.m. on Monday, “Completely destroyed the building process as well as the upper ball storage hall ” of waste, but “The administrative constructing has remained virtually intact, in addition to neighboring constructions”specifies the syctom in its press release.

The site – a building of 13,000 square meters on four levels – was in operation at the time of the facts and the fire took “In an intermediate storage space of ​​papers and packing containers”is it written there. According to police, about 25 employees were evacuated on Monday evening. An employee who tried to put out the fire was poisoned by the smoke and transported in emergency relative to the Bichat hospital.

The origin of the disaster, which caused an impressive plume of smoke Monday evening in the clear sky of the capital, remains to be determined. An investigation for involuntary destruction by fire exposing others to bodily injury was entrusted to the police station of 17e Arrondissement, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.

On the fire site which broke out the day before in the syctom recycling plant, north of Paris, April 8, 2025.
On the fire site which broke out the day before in the syctom recycling plant, north of Paris, April 8, 2025.

Sixty firefighters and approximately two hundred fire soldiers were hired, and no one injured is to be declared among the emergency workforce, deployed around 7:55 p.m. Monday evening at 39, Boulevard de Douaumont.

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The peripheral boulevard was also closed on Monday evening in both directions, between the doors of Champerret and Clichy, before being reopened to traffic in the interior direction at 10:40 pm. For safety, no bare took place last night at the nearby courthouse, in case it was necessary to evacuate the building, learned the agency France-Presse from judicial source.

Deployed robots

An important hydraulic device has been put in place in order to be able to fight the fire, according to the police. The fire was mastered around 4:30 a.m. by means of six high power spears, but firefighters remained there while the security perimeter was maintained, still according to a police source.

Firefighters also used “Critical robots” remotely managed “Who can get nearer” to “ flames, on which water spears are mounted which may ship “A very large amount of water”needed “For this kind of fire”stated the firefighters. Tuesday morning, two robots have been nonetheless used on the scene of the catastrophe, whereas black smoke escaped from the burnting constructing and a bitter scent took the throat and caught their eyes, a journalist from the France-Presse company famous. Only the construction of the constructing remains to be seen.

The Center, inbuilt 2019 and operated by the French multinational Suez, hosted the content material of the yellow bins of “Four Parisian districts and nine neighboring municipalities”getting ready for recycling waste “Over 900,000 inhabitants”particulars syctom. A “Alternative flow processing plan” To compensate for the middle cease is being developed, he lastly assures.

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