A fire in a shipping container near Garage Delisle in Alma caught attention Tuesday afternoon as very high plumes of black smoke could be seen for miles around.
Twenty firefighters from the Fire Prevention Service intervened to prevent any spreading around.
The flesh turned to ashes. Traffic was cut off on the avenue du Pont Nord.
We received a call at 3:41 pm for a container fire next to a building. […] When we arrived, the fire quickly spread to the forest and to the grass that was now very dry.explained Maxime Fortin, director of Alma’s fire prevention department.
Note that the risk of forest fires is currently considered extreme in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean by the Society for the Protection of Forests against Fire (SOPFEU).
We asked a second team at the scene to stop the spread, as we have a residential area behind the building involved and we also have Métro Dubé and a commercial sector that could also be affected.he continued.
The tires were visible in the area after the fire.
We know it started in the trash can, but we still don’t have a cause for the fire.he concludes.
With information from Laurie Gobeil
Source: Radio-Canada
