An empty three-story building on rue Saint-Rome in Toulouse collapsed on the night of Friday March 8 to Saturday March 9, 2024, as reported on Saturday March 9, 2024 The Dispatch. Due to the situation, Wednesday March 6, 2024, the city municipality had taken a danger order to evacuate the premises. During the night, numerous members of the firefighters, Smur and police were deployed around the area. While research is underway, no victims have been reported. 26 people were evacuated before the collapse of the building, which had nine homes and two businesses. The situation still worries the authorities: the firefighters on site mention a risk of collapse of the building adjacent to the one that fell. The authorities have already announced that emergency accommodation will be covered by Toulouse town hall. During the immediate evacuation of residents, a major crack was detected.
More and more cases in France…
Debris from the building spilled into adjacent streets “in a spectacular way”, as an AFP photographer observed. This collapse comes as the Toulouse metropolitan area was affected by the collapse of a viaduct, killing one worker and seriously injuring two others. In recent months, collapses have become more and more numerous in France. On the night of April 8 to 9, 2023, a residential building collapsed in Marseille. A tragedy which caused the death of six people, as indicated The Dispatch. Nearly 200 people had been evacuated as a precaution from around thirty surrounding buildings. Emmanuel Macron quickly expressed his emotion at the tragedy on April 9, 2023 on his X account, formerly Twitter. In November 2018, eight other people died in the collapse buildings on rue d’Aubagne in the Marseille city, as recalled The world in November 2018. Large cities are not spared. Since the fatal collapse of two buildings in Lille in November 2022, the city has received more than 200 requests for intervention on the reliability of buildings, said The voice of the Northin its edition of January 31, 2023. In 2018, a Co-ownership Initiatives Plan was launched for degraded residential buildings.