Around midnight, a fire broke out in a 3,000-m² home improvement store. The blaze spread to the warehouse that was storing 2,000 litres of alcohol, bottles of inflammable gases and a wide array of chemical products. Traffic on the national highway had to be detoured. The emergency response conditions proved rather complicated for the 80 fire-fighters called to the scene. Given the quantity of inflammable substances, fire-fighters were required to cut through the metal shutters protecting the store entrances in order to install a sufficient number of nozzles. A sizeable volume of extinction water spilled into a retention basin, which in turn overflowed. The polluted water then spread into the natural environment before penetrating the joint municipal water supply catchment. The population was requested not to drink tap water. Two fire-fighters were slightly hurt during the response. The sales area was destroyed, but the inside warehouse could be salvaged. The monetary amount of damage was appraised at the value of the stock (4 million euros), and 65 employees were made redundant. Lightning could have caused this loss.