“We couldn’t see anything, the smoke was so black! More fear than harm on this Monday afternoon in the Malakoff district of Nantes. Like this employee of Nantes Métropole Habitat, some 150 people were evacuated by firefighters due to a fire that broke out in the basement of an eight-storey office and housing building in Place Rosa-Parks .
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This impressive plume of smoke, visible several hundred meters away, also worried local residents. It would in fact have formed after “four to five vehicles were set on fire”, indicate the firefighters, deployed in number since around 2:10 p.m. The shops in the square were closed and the area was closed to traffic. The intervention was still in progress at 3:30 p.m.
No victims are to be deplored and the origin of the fire is for the moment unknown, specify the firefighters in a press release, sent at the end of the day.