Roissy-en-France, France – A dramatic fire sent enormous clouds of thick black and grey smoke rising behind the illuminated terminal buildings and control tower of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport on the evening of May 9, 2026.

The handheld video, filmed from the airport tarmac and runway area at dusk by X user Stelios Garipis, captured the massive smoke plume expanding across the twilight sky as airport lights glowed in the distance.

As the camera slowly moved along the runway, blue and yellow edge lights, grassy verges, and white runway markings including “Y2” could be seen in the foreground while the dense smoke drifted high above the airport perimeter.

The blaze erupted around 9:15 p.m. inside a large pastry-production warehouse belonging to Le Gourmet Parisien in the Moulin industrial area of Roissy-en-France, located only a few hundred metres from the airport.

Around sixty firefighters from the Val-d’Oise department were deployed to battle the flames. The fire completely destroyed the facility, but no injuries or casualties were reported.

Despite the scale of the smoke cloud, air traffic at one of Europe’s busiest airports continued without disruption as the fire burned nearby. The thick smoke was reportedly visible from several kilometres away, including parts of central Paris.

The footage rapidly spread online as one of the clearest recordings of the towering smoke plume rising over the airport area.

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