A major fire at a high-risk industrial waste warehouse in eastern France prompted authorities on Sunday to order roughly 30,000 residents in Moselle to shelter in place as a precaution. The prefecture issued the confinement advisory for Gandrange and four neighbouring towns after the blaze broke out around mid-morning.
The fire engulfed a storage building at the Suez Alternative Fuels & Energies complex in the Gandrange industrial zone, a site classified under the SEVESO directive for high-risk facilities. The structure collapsed during the blaze. More than 100 firefighters and dozens of vehicles, including specialist chemical units, were deployed to the scene.
Authorities declared the fire controlled by the afternoon. Two people — a firefighter and a site worker — sustained minor injuries and were hospitalised, while a third firefighter was treated on site.