Gas Explosion in central Lyon: one firefighter dead and 34 wounded
A gas explosion occurred on Thursday at 12:20 in the centre of Lyon killed a firefighter and injured 34, including two serious: a civilian and an employee of GDF, it was learned from the firefighters who Rhone said that among the injured included 14 firefighters, five police officers and two gas wells. According to the prefecture of the Rhone, the loss is due to the "manipulation" of a pipeline by a company works.
The prefect Safety Officer Xavier de Fürst explained on the spot to the press that "leak (gas) has been detected, the firefighters, accompanied by agents of GDF," have evacuated the building and when l 'evacuation was completed, there was this explosion. " It has engulfed the building located Lafayette course in the district of the Part-Dieu.
Xavier Richaud, public prosecutor in Lyon, has announced the opening of an investigation for manslaughter and involuntary injuries ", which was entrusted to the security of Lyon. "Based on the investigation, the authorities will" follow if it is eventually is drawn-but we must be careful-that there have been shortcomings in the organization of work, including carelessness and non - compliance with regulations, "he explained.
"The gas had to return to the ground floor or basement of the building, and when the firefighters were in the process of evacuating and making reconnaissance to see if there was a danger, c that is where the explosion occurred, and unfortunately, one of the firefighters was buried, "testified Colonel Serge Delaigue, commander of the fire Rhone. If there has been no more serious injuries, it is because "this firefighter him he paid tribute.
"We evacuated the entire block of buildings which is around the disaster, in order to reach a safe area of about 300 metres around the disaster", or a thousand people in six blocks of buildings, continued M . De Fürst adding that the EMS had set up an advanced medical post to treat the casualties. The hundred firefighters on the spot mastered in the late afternoon households not yet extinguished.
It stated that the firefighters had taken from 34 persons, 26 have been hospitalized and the others, probably shocked, treated on the spot.
While rescuers dogs were sent into the rubble to search for possible other victims, the Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has been there, before getting together with the victims. After the recent tragedies of Niort or Bondy, it found "obvious that accidents like this show that we must go further and perhaps do more training and information for all those who are required to work on or in the vicinity of such gas pipelines. "
"For three months we have a commission that has worked" in the wake of recent outbreaks, "she recalled, adding that the committee" stressed that the necessary regulations existed, that these regulations were not always sufficiently setting work. "
The CEO of GDF, Jean-Francois Cirelli, who also visited the site, agreed that "there are too many accidents on the pipeline." "In conjunction with the State, I would like it all sits around a table with the National Federation of Public Works, to better ensure the safety of French."
The prefect Safety Officer Xavier de Fürst explained on the spot to the press that "leak (gas) has been detected, the firefighters, accompanied by agents of GDF," have evacuated the building and when l 'evacuation was completed, there was this explosion. " It has engulfed the building located Lafayette course in the district of the Part-Dieu.
Xavier Richaud, public prosecutor in Lyon, has announced the opening of an investigation for manslaughter and involuntary injuries ", which was entrusted to the security of Lyon. "Based on the investigation, the authorities will" follow if it is eventually is drawn-but we must be careful-that there have been shortcomings in the organization of work, including carelessness and non - compliance with regulations, "he explained.
"The gas had to return to the ground floor or basement of the building, and when the firefighters were in the process of evacuating and making reconnaissance to see if there was a danger, c that is where the explosion occurred, and unfortunately, one of the firefighters was buried, "testified Colonel Serge Delaigue, commander of the fire Rhone. If there has been no more serious injuries, it is because "this firefighter him he paid tribute.
"We evacuated the entire block of buildings which is around the disaster, in order to reach a safe area of about 300 metres around the disaster", or a thousand people in six blocks of buildings, continued M . De Fürst adding that the EMS had set up an advanced medical post to treat the casualties. The hundred firefighters on the spot mastered in the late afternoon households not yet extinguished.
It stated that the firefighters had taken from 34 persons, 26 have been hospitalized and the others, probably shocked, treated on the spot.
While rescuers dogs were sent into the rubble to search for possible other victims, the Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has been there, before getting together with the victims. After the recent tragedies of Niort or Bondy, it found "obvious that accidents like this show that we must go further and perhaps do more training and information for all those who are required to work on or in the vicinity of such gas pipelines. "
"For three months we have a commission that has worked" in the wake of recent outbreaks, "she recalled, adding that the committee" stressed that the necessary regulations existed, that these regulations were not always sufficiently setting work. "
The CEO of GDF, Jean-Francois Cirelli, who also visited the site, agreed that "there are too many accidents on the pipeline." "In conjunction with the State, I would like it all sits around a table with the National Federation of Public Works, to better ensure the safety of French."
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