A violent fire erupted around 8 pm on the premises of an 8,000-m² packaging company located in an industrial park. This 10-ha site comprised a number of older buildings. The fireworks-related explosions complicated the intervention of emergency responders. In the absence of closures with a fire rating of at least 2h, the accident was able to quickly spread to all buildings in the park. A 100-m safety perimeter was set up. Forty neighbouring residents had to be evacuated. The fire then spread to 7,000 tonnes of scrap car bodies (i.e. a domino effect) at an automobile junkyard located 15 m from the building. These vehicles, despite being cleaned of pollution, still contained hydrocarbons that fed the fire until the following evening. The emergency response teams allocated significant resources to stopping the fire at 8:30 pm; a total of 56 employees were made redundant and over 10,000 m2 of warehouses destroyed.