In a plastics manufacturing plant, fire broke out in a 2,000-m² building containing plastics and cardboard. At 3:12 pm, a company employee heard a load slamming noise (which attracted her attention). She saw flames above the cardboard boxes in the facility’s storage building and warned her shop foreman, who called the fire department and alerted the facility manager. Fire-fighters were notified at the scene of the absence of explosives. The operator shut down the transformer and recommended that the fire-fighters try to save the second production building and tooling mounted on the 650-t press, which was operating at the time the fire broke out and where the employee was working. It had become apparent that despite fire-fighters’ best efforts, the first building could no longer be saved. Since the construction was made of fibrous asbestos panels (roofing and cladding), dust pollution from these panels was feared. The initially planned evacuation of six buildings downwind was updated to focus on just three of them. Municipal services set up a safety perimeter using barriers, and fire-fighters brought the fire under control using six water cannons. They finally managed to save the second building from the blaze. The company employed a workforce of 65 on two sites, 12 of whom faced redundancy depending on the damage to machine tools. A dam was installed on the SARTHE River in order to avoid any risk of pollution. Surveillance patrols were carried out during the night. A burst light located above the storage was the cause of this fire. The capacitors and starters were indeed able to reach very high temperatures. Following this incident, the used asbestos-laden panels were required to be disposed of properly. A study was conducted to improve fire safety for reconstruction of the storage building.