{"id":333411,"date":"2025-08-10T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333411\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:01:23","slug":"fire-at-chlorine-factory-in-southern-france-forces-locals-to-stay-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333411\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at chlorine factory in southern France forces locals to stay indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PARIS (Reuters) -A fire broke out at a chlorine factory in southern France on Sunday, raising the risk of toxic fumes and prompting authorities to order nearby residents to stay indoors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The plant, operated by HydraPro, is used to produce chlorine for swimming pools. The local authority urged anyone within around a kilometre of the factory to stay inside and close their doors and windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;As the winds are blowing north, the smell of chlorine can be felt,&#8221; the prefecture said, though it noted that the smell itself was not a public safety risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The plant is classified a &#8220;seveso&#8221; site under a directive that requires European Union member states to identify factories that handle dangerous substances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters have been dispatched and are expected to be joined by a specialised team, the local authority said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The chemical factory is located in the French town of L\u00e9denon, about 28 kilometres (17.3 miles) south-west of Avignon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Forrest CrellinEditing by Christina Fincher)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (Reuters) -A fire broke out at a chlorine factory in southern France on Sunday, raising the risk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[119493,119492,2000,299,36,26105,119491,14449,119494],"class_list":{"0":"post-333411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-chemical-factory","9":"tag-chlorine","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-local-authority","14":"tag-nearby-residents","15":"tag-southern-france","16":"tag-toxic-fumes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115005075159380711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}