A building located in Chaponost (Rhône) partially collapsed on Wednesday morning, firefighters said, adding that no casualties or injuries were to be deplored.
We intervened shortly after 7:00 a.m. for a partial collapse of a residential building with a pith structure [murs en terre crue compacte] which includes four apartments on the first floor with attics and a shop on the ground floor, told AFP Lieutenant-Colonel Laurent Meunier, firefighter of the Rhne, confirming information from the regional daily Le Progrs.
We evacuated four people when we arrived and one person was missing but happened to be on the move, so not there, he reported.
The building, located in a street in the city center of the agglomeration, probably collapsed around 3:30 a.m., said the firefighter, explaining that the tenants heard a loud noise, that they looked at the street side but, not having seen anything abnormal, they went back to bed.
A security perimeter was put in place and measures to secure the building were being carried out on Wednesday morning by the fifty or so firefighters dispatched to the event. The other part of the building threatens to collapse so the tenants, currently supported by the town hall, will not be able to return to the building, concluded this same source.
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