At least 160 hectares of vegetation went up in smoke, this Monday at the end of the day, in the town of Breuil Chaussée in Bressuire. Barns were destroyed and several animals died. A hundred firefighters were mobilized.
From 5 p.m., about thirty threatened homes had been evacuated as a precaution. The inhabitants spent the night in a village hall in Beaulieu. But the firefighters mobilized had to thwart the wind fanning the flames in one direction then in another through fields, meadows and woods.
A house was hit 4 barns destroyed and 4 goats died. Provisional report put forward by the firefighters in the middle of the evening.
If the fire head was fixed around 10 p.m., the operation will be long notify the emergency services.