Echoes of local life: miscellaneous facts and old press

An announcement illustrated in one reported that one Friday morning, in Vierville-sur-Mer, part of the roadway had sunken under the weight of a 40-ton crane truck. The vehicle had overturned. The newspaper referred to page 4 for the detailed account.

An announcement illustrated in one reported that one Friday morning, in Vierville-sur-Mer, part of the roadway had sunken under the weight of a 40-ton crane truck. The vehicle had overturned. The newspaper referred to page 4 for the detailed account.

One Friday around 10:15 a.m., a 40-ton crane truck, equipped with a sixty-meter telescopic arm, tipped onto its side outside 34 Cauvigny Boulevard after the sidewalk collapsed. Its driver, Philippe, was unharmed. He said he had never experienced such an accident in twenty-five years.

The machine was removing the electricity poles installed on the cliff behind the houses, after the ERDF buried the lines. A first pole had been removed around 9:30 a.m. in front of elected officials and ERDF officials. To move the crane to the second, it had to be left partly supported so that the load-spreading plates could be recovered. That's when the sidewalk gave way.

Unbalanced, the vehicle had leaned against the fence and the gate of a second home, threatening the gable of the house whose occupants were absent. Two cranes arrived in the early afternoon to lift it upright; technical difficulties and several tests required the call of a third.

A high-voltage line passing under the roadway was taken out of service, depriving many subscribers of electricity to secure the twenty agents mobilized. The operation was completed around 9 p.m. Traffic between Vierville and Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, on the boulevard, had been interrupted all day. The gate was damaged, but the accident could have had much more serious consequences. The cut was published in La Renaissance – Le Bessin of March 13, 2012.

One Friday around 10:15 a.m., a 40-ton crane truck, equipped with a sixty-meter telescopic arm, tipped onto its side outside 34 Cauvigny Boulevard after the sidewalk collapsed. Its driver, Philippe, was unharmed. He said he had never experienced such an accident in twenty-five years.

The machine was removing the electricity poles installed on the cliff behind the houses, after the ERDF buried the lines. A first pole had been removed around 9:30 a.m. in front of elected officials and ERDF officials. To move the crane to the second, it had to be left partly supported so that the load-spreading plates could be recovered. That's when the sidewalk gave way.

Unbalanced, the vehicle had leaned against the fence and the gate of a second home, threatening the gable of the house whose occupants were absent. Two cranes arrived in the early afternoon to lift it upright; technical difficulties and several tests required the call of a third.

A high-voltage line passing under the roadway was taken out of service, depriving many subscribers of electricity to secure the twenty agents mobilized. The operation was completed around 9 p.m. Traffic between Vierville and Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, on the boulevard, had been interrupted all day. The gate was damaged, but the accident could have had much more serious consequences. The cut was published in La Renaissance – Le Bessin of March 13, 2012.

On the evening of January 1, shortly after 8 p.m., a recent pavilion caught fire on Rue de la Hérode in Vierville-sur-Mer. A neighbor gave the alert after seeing flames coming out of the roof.

Despite the intervention of the Trévières and Bayeux firefighters, the house was quickly and completely devastated. The Caen urban search-and-rescue team had also gone to the site to rescue possible victims.

The owners, residents of Molay-Littry who used the pavilion as a second home, were absent. Warned, they noticed the damage upon their arrival, in the presence of Mayor Jean-Marie Oxéant.

According to the first reported findings, the fire may have had an electrical cause: a short circuit may have started in the freezer. This cause remained presented as a hypothesis at this stage.

One Friday, shortly before 7 p.m., a thirty-four-year-old paraglider launched from the cliff of Vierville-sur-Mer. Surprised by a gust of wind, he could not control his canopy, which collapsed. He fell about thirty meters.

His condition, the weather and the high tide prevented an evacuation by firefighters who arrived in an inflatable boat. The Dragon Civil Security helicopter, from Cherbourg, was therefore sent to the site.

Originally from Magny-le-Freule, near Mézidon, the victim was taken care of by the Trévières firefighters and SMUR doctors, in the presence of the SDIS divers and Mayor Jean-Marie Oxéant. Suffering from a double fracture of the jaw, he was transported to the University Hospital of Caen.

The newspaper reports that on a Sunday afternoon, a scooter driving on rue de la Mer, towards the beach, hit a walker in the leg by forcing the passage between pedestrians. His driver did not stop.

The gendarmes of the brigade community of Isigny-sur-Mer quickly found the scooter in a ditch, then arrested its driver. According to the denomination, it was a 31-year-old resident of Formigny.

A 160 kg shell required a neutralization operation at the foot of the Englesqueville-la-Percée cliff. At 2 p.m., a dozen firefighters, the miners of the Ifs center and the gendarmes were on site. Access to the beach and the coastal path were forbidden, while waiting for the civil security helicopter, then engaged in Granville and expected around 3 p.m.

Nicole d'Hérouville, mayor of the municipality, had been notified the day before by fax from the prefecture. She had taken an order prohibiting access to the beach, without evacuating the inhabitants. She recalled that in 2005 a similar operation had forced her to warn local residents from door to door so that they would stay at home. Representatives of the DDE and the General Council were also present.

Before the intervention, the helicopter had to fly over the cliff to verify that no one was near the area. In the late afternoon, the shell, whose caliber was given at 270 mm, had been brought back to the Ifs demining center.

The mayor stressed that erosion, landslides and large tides could still cause more bombs or shells to appear in the following years.

On Wednesday around 12:45 p.m., a fire broke out in a house in the Cité des Jardins in Vierville-sur-Mer. The first elements of the investigation located the start of the fire in the back kitchen, where the electricity meter was located. Marcel Lepley, sixty-four years old, present in the house, was not injured; the owner was absent.

Despite the rapid arrival of the Trévières firefighters, reinforced by those of Bayeux, the fire affected the entire house and destroyed the roof. However, the furniture was evacuated. The terraced house suffered slight damage without being overcome by the flames.

The territorial brigade of Trévières continued the investigation. His first findings were an accidental origin.

On Wednesday, around 12:45 p.m., a fire completely destroyed the roof of a pavilion in the Cité des Jardins, in Vierville-sur-Mer, without injuring anyone.

According to the newspaper, the fire had an accidental origin: a short circuit in the back kitchen of Suzanne Marie's house, aged sixty-one. Marcel Lepley, his sixty-four-year-old friend, who was in this room, immediately gave the alert. While the flames spread, the furniture had to be evacuated.

The houses being terraced, the fire began to reach the neighboring house. The firefighters of Trévières, reinforced by those of Bayeux, watered this second house to prevent the spread. They also removed a meter of tiles. The damage remained light.

The two occupants of the Canelle died on the night of a Sunday to a Monday near Vierville. The sailboat and bodies were found at the Pointe de la Percée, a few hundred meters from the beach.

Around 10 p.m. on Sunday, a witness and the Port-en-Bessin coastwatch station had seen a distress rocket. According to the CROSS Jobourg, in charge of relief, a very strong sea and winds reaching 75 km/h prevented a maritime search. For two hours, the Trévières firefighters swept the coast with spotlights, without spotting the boat. A gendarmerie patrol was scheduled at dawn. The coastwatch station finally located the sailboat on Monday around 7:30 a.m.

Serge Bierman, 52, and Marcel Taburet, a 68-year-old retiree, both lived in Évreux. They had left Deauville on Saturday in the middle of the morning. Serge Bierman had just bought this 8.75 m First 30 Bénéteau, used and registered in Toulon.

Despite the bad weather announced, the two men had taken to sea. Witnesses had observed the boat advancing with difficulty during the afternoon. Around 3 p.m., after losing sight of the boat as it approached the coast, the coastwatch station alerted the gendarmerie, then located it again. Around 6 p.m., a regular visitor spotted the boat about 400 m from the shore, facing Colleville, and assumed that its crew was trying to reach Port-en-Bessin. The cut indicated that no radio call had been recorded before the night, despite the on-board equipment.

The strong tide may have pushed the sailboat into the cove. Rescuers found the boat lying on its side, with the rescue boat just deployed about fifteen meters away. The bodies were a little further away. They had to be helicoptered quickly before the rise of the sea. The maritime gendarmerie of the Caen district opened an investigation. The article is signed T. H.

The Canelle, a sailboat of nearly nine meters, was found stranded on a Monday morning in the cove of the Pointe de la Percée, under Louvières. Two bodies, those of its occupants, lay near the hull. The owner of the boat was fifty-two years old.

Departing from Deauville on Saturday morning, the sailboat had been spotted on Sunday in the early afternoon by the Port-en-Bessin semaphore. He had sailed all day between the Percée and Colleville in a strong wind, without his occupants expressing a need for help.

Only around 10 p.m., red rockets had triggered ground relief. A night reconnaissance had remained without result. The brief refers to a sequel on page 4, absent from this image.

On the night of a Sunday to a Monday, by a wind of force 6 to 7, a nine-meter sailboat ran aground at the point of the Percée. The bodies of the two boaters, aged 52 and 62, were found a few meters from the boat.

On Monday afternoon, maritime affairs, the maritime gendarmerie and the gendarmerie of Trévières went to the site. An investigation was opened to establish the exact circumstances of the accident.

Two men died on Sunday, October 17 in the evening in the sinking of their sailboat near Vierville, according to this cut. Caught in winds of force 6 to 7 and hollows of four meters, the 9.50 m boat had been pushed against the point of the Percée, a few hundred meters from the beach of Omaha.

The port-en-Bessin traffic light had reported red rockets around 10 p.m. Embarrassed by the darkness, the firefighters had not found the ship, located only on Monday morning by the traffic light.

Rescuers discovered the bodies a few tens of meters from the boat, whose hull was intact. The newspaper named Serge Biermann, 52, and Marcel Taburet, 62, both domiciled in Évreux. Leaving Deauville on Saturday morning, they had to go to Saint-Malo. The photograph is credited to Boudonnet.

On the night of a Friday to a Saturday, around one o'clock in the morning, Dr. Ripoche, driving on the Louvières road, saw flames coming out of the roof of an isolated house in the hamlet of Vacqueville, in Vierville-sur-Mer. The Trévières firefighters, alerted, could not save this five-room second home or its furniture: only the walls remained standing.

The fire seemed to have caught in the kitchen. The next morning, the Trévières gendarmes found that a shutter and a window of this room had been forced, suggesting an intrusion.

The house belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Henri Laloux, domiciled in Omerville, Val-d'Oise. In seventeen years, they had redone all the rooms and built an extension. Coming at the beginning of the week, they had left on Wednesday afternoon, after cutting off the electricity and turning off the gas as usual. The house was therefore unoccupied at the time of the disaster.

Arriving on Saturday morning, they suspected an act of vandalism. They said they had already suffered several burglaries, this intrusion being, according to them, the sixth. They kept old furniture, cabinets and tables, but no longer left precious objects. The damage was estimated at more than 700,000 francs.

The firefighters of Trévières, helped by a few men from Bayeux, stayed all night. The Trévières gendarmes, Captain Le Berre de Bayeux and the mayor went there. The investigation was to determine whether the fire was actually the result of a malicious act.

On a Wednesday around 9 p.m., the twenty-five-tone trawler Cinq-Frères was returning to Grandcamp after a scallop fishing when it hit a World War II wreck off Vierville-sur-Mer. The sea was rough. Philippe Germain, the shipowner who commanded the boat, had a red rocket fired and launched an SOS. The ship being in great difficulty, he embarked with the four crew members in the Bombard canoe.

The rescue stations on the coast mobilized, but the state of the sea complicated the search. Despite the spotlight, the boat remained untraceable. Several gendarmerie brigades, under the orders of Captain Thévenet, commander of the Bayeux company, borough firefighters and Mr. Loison, director of Civil Protection, were present.

Alerted around 10 p.m. by Mr. Legallois, from Vierville, the Port-en-Bessin rescue center tried to go out to Zodiac, but the conditions forced him to return.

The trawler La Mouette, commissioned by Noël Véron, then patrolled the scene. The newspaper reports the discovery of the "Bombard canoe envelope" shortly before 11 p.m., then calls signaling nearby men, in their tires. The five sailors were collected by La Mouette and landed in Port-en-Bessin around 0:40 a.m., before returning to Grandcamp.

The intervention was particularly urgent: the rising tide pushed the canoe towards the cliff, where the violence of the sea and the currents risked crushing it. The trawler had been cut in half; its engine rested on the beach, about thirty meters in the sand.

One Friday, a brownish layer of fuel oil stained the rough sea in the Bay of Omaha, more strongly to the west and Vierville. On more than two kilometers of beach, hydrocarbons and small debris from the offshore were deposited on the strike.

The proximity of the Torrey-Canyon oil spill was all the more worrying as, for eight days, the north wind had been pushing the currents from England towards Normandy. Mr. Hardelay, mayor of Vierville, inspected the place towards the Pointe de la Percée with Chief Warrant Officer Dufour, interim commander of the Bayeux gendarmerie company, the Chief Marshal Frostin and the Trévières gendarmes. Representatives of the Civil Protection and the head of the department's rescue centers also came on site.

No intervention was finally decided: the reflux had almost entirely taken over the fuel oil. Some boards, projected up to the dike, and tar balls glued to the pebbles remained visible.

The cut emphasized that this was not the first pollution of its kind. It finally considered a discharge on the high seas by an oil tanker more likely than a new arrival from Torrey-Canyon, without establishing this origin with certainty.