The fires have multiplied in the Dordogne since this weekend. After the biggest fire of the year in the department in the Double forest, to the west of the department at La Roche Chalais and Eygurande, then a new fire in the same massif at Parcoul-Chenaud on Monday evening, a Another large-scale forest fire broke out on the evening of Monday August 8 in a completely different sector, that of Lussas-et-Nontronneauin the Nontronnais.
The fire brought under control in the evening
Between five and ten hectares of hardwoods burned, according to a still approximate assessment of firefighters Monday evening. The night prevented them from accurately estimating the damage. The fire is said to have started from an agricultural machinea cover crop, in a meadow in the middle of the woods. The farmer unhitched the machine without realizing that it had overheated, and the fire started in the hardwood massif.
No homes were affected in this isolated area. The barracks of Javerlhac, Mareuil and Nontron were the first to intervene, soon joined by sixty firefighters in all which came in particular from the fire of La Roche Chalais. The fire was brought under control in the evening and the firefighters left to fight the fires in the Double.