A fire broke out at around 2:30 p.m. in an 8-tonne sunflower drying at an oil mill. Personnel were evacuated. The fire brigade set up 3 water hoses, one of which was mounted on a ladder to cool down the drying installation, and a foam hose to extinguish the fire. The intervention by the fire brigade was complicated because the dryer was not equipped with a ‘quick-dump’ hatch; an opening in the lower part of the dryer had to be created to remove the grain and finalise the extinguishing process. The emergency intervention ended at around 9 p.m. that evening; a surveillance round was conducted during the night. The extinguishing water, held back by bales of hay, was collected in the ditch surrounding the facility. No injuries were reported. An elected official and the gendarmerie visited the site.