It was at 4:15 am, this Saturday morning, that the alert was given for a fire in the Bernard Heine farm, along the road linking Metzervisse to Inglange, not far from the green waste treatment center ” Terralys ”. “The fire, which started for an undetermined reason was set ablaze at night and could be seen from very far away”, confided a firefighter from Metz who arrived very quickly on the scene with the pump-tonne van from the rescue center.
Joined by their colleagues from the centers of Yutz, Moyeuvre, Metz, Hagondange and Thionville with significant resources, the thirty men on the ground focused above all on securing the buildings close to the filled hangar up to the roof, which contained more than 9000 m³ of fodder, roundballers and big boots.
The cattle were sidelined, but several machines, including a baler and several trailers, were burnt. A few meters away, another hangar, which houses more than twenty animals, has been placed under surveillance.
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A year of work reduced to ashes
For Bernard Heine, powerless in the face of this disaster, “it’s the work of a whole year that goes up in smoke. An already complicated year, with a smaller harvest. I’ve been digging in the forage for two months. Ironically, I helped out a colleague a few months ago, and now I am going to have to search for food, because my reserve will not allow me to spend the winter. “
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Pierre Heine, the mayor of the town, went immediately to the scene, as well as the gendarmes of the Guénange brigade, who ensured the traffic coming from the D918 and made the first observations.
Metzervisse firefighters will remain on site to monitor the hangar, the contents of which will burn for several days.
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