Incendie au sommet de la flèche de la cathédrale de #Rouen⚠️
La cathédrale a été évacuée.
🚒 Les secours sont sur place, un périmètre de sécurité a été établi.➡️ Merci d'éviter le secteur et de ne pas encombrer les lignes de secours. pic.twitter.com/ZNjBbZ2S86
— Préfet de Normandie et de la Seine-Maritime (@Prefet76) July 11, 2024
Emergency services quickly intervened on site according to the Seine-Maritime prefecture with 63 firefighters mobilized on site supported by 33 machines according to information communicated by the SDIS of the department. Department &àgrave; AFP. The police on their side have looped the area around the cathedral. The building was renovated. fully evacuated and no victims are involved. deplore.
The intervention of the firefighters was still in progress around 1 p.m. "We intervened to start a fire for the cathedral. We are in a construction zone and workers have reported this. the start of the disaster. The burning elements are construction site plastic elements. explained the director of SDIS, Colonel Gouezec, à Actu76. "We have reached the disaster and we are in the process of completing the extinction. We will need a few more minutes, or perhaps an hour, to ensure that there are no hot spots left in the area, according to the SDIS. #39;a press point. The prefect has, for his part, indicated having "solicitedé the competition of teams specialized in the preservation of movable property" concerning the preservation of the cathedral after the disaster.
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Les forces de l'ordre mettent un périmètre de sécurité en place sur le parvis de la cathédrale de #Rouen. De là où je suis je ne vois pas encore les pompiers. pic.twitter.com/trnr4dkDff
— Julien Bouteiller (@j_bouteiller) July 11, 2024
The fire was caused by master's degree in less than two hours and the flames are no longer progressing according to the SDIS. The smoke begins at night. dissipate according to several journalists and images posted by Internet users.
🔴 Un #incendie est en cours sur la flèche de la cathédrale de #Rouen. Pompiers arrivent sur place pic.twitter.com/sBL6qni0d8
— Jérémy Chatet (@jeremychatet) July 11, 2024
The origin of the fire still unknown
The fire broke out à midday on the spire of Rouen Cathedral, but the origin of the fire is “unknown” this stadium" indicated&eac; the socialist mayor of Rouen. "The fire started à 100 meters high" according to information from Actu76. "The fire started at the top of the spire, which is not made of wood but of metal, currently under restoration work" specifiedé the prefecture of Seine-Maritime which is not able to say whether the wooden frame was damaged. affected by the fire.
Work was in progress on the spire of Rouen Cathedral, the tarpaulin surrounding the architecture had to be # Elsewhere was burned and a gaping hole was formed. under the effect of the flames. "The site is complex à due to this height with very important scaffolding structures" explained Richard Duplat, chief architect of Historical Monuments, à Tendance Ouest speaking of a construction site "Eiffel Tower".