A fire broke out 2,000 m² wooden door at around 1 am in a manufacturing workshop. With no smoke control system, the workshop was located in a 3,000 m² building characterised by wood openings, a metal structure, concrete block and polycarbonate sheet walls with a corrugated iron roof insulated with glass wool covered by an aluminium film. The operator alerted the emergency services who arrived on site 20 minutes later. The electricity utility cut off the site’s power supply. Firefighters used one 2,000 l/min deluge gun and 4 variable flow nozzles, one of which was mounted on a ladder. They had to be partly supplied by a fire hydrant 600 m away and feared the collapse of the building and the explosion of gas bottles. The emergency services contained the fire at around 2.40 am, preventing the flames from spreading to a sawdust silo and 2 adjacent 300 m² buildings. The fire destroyed tooling machines, social areas, a paint spray booth and some of the nearby paint storage of 1 000 l. Following the accident, 25 of the 35 employees were placed on technical unemployment. The operator built a new workshop adjoining the building affected. A decree An emergency response measures order defined the activity’s restart in safety mode for the area affected. Cleaning and clearing of ditches, pipes, basins through which polluted water could have passed. Evacuation and treatment of the waste generated by the fire (effluents, sludge, polluted materials, etc.). Checking of the electrical installations, firefighting equipment and the building structures, pipes and tanks that could have been affected by the fire.