Neighbors saw the flames first. This Monday, September 19, around 6:30 p.m., a fire started take the greenway on the edge of the Isle in Moulin-Neuf, between Ménesplet and the Gironde, near the departmental 6089. The flames nibbled a meadow to spread to the garden of a nearby house.
Malory Longaud, a motorist passing by, stops when she sees the smoke: “There were three children inside the house, their parents had gone to Coutras to do some shopping”, says this resident of Montpon. Those are the residents who take them out of the house while waiting for help.
The three children taken out by the neighbors
The fire was quickly brought under control by the firefighters on site, despite heavy smoke. Between 2000 and 3000 square meters burned.
According to the gendarmes, the fire had time to spread to a garage, he burned a motorhome and a car. The gendarmes went to the scene to try to determine the origin of the fire.