Forest fires broke out in Mobihan, Finistère, lsère and Dordogne this weekend. All the fires are not yet under control, Monday August 8 in the morning. Hundreds of firefighters are still on the ground and air resources are ready to intervene. We take stock of the situation.
Thirty fires in Morbihan
Thirty fires have affected the department of Morbihan, in the Vannes-Auray region since Saturday evening, where 200 hectares have been destroyed. The spread of the flames was facilitated by the drought which rages in the department and by the winds. Of the Simultaneous fires affected natural areas in Morbihan, particularly in the municipalities of Locoal-Mendon, Questembert and Pluvigner. It took the mobilization of 430 firefighters and 120 machines.
Two investigations have been opened by the Lorient public prosecutor’s office into the fire at Saint-Philibert as well as those at Erdeven and Locoal-Mendon. The track of a fire started by the use of firecrackers in Saint-Philibert is privileged, reports France Bleu Armorique. Debris was found on the spot and two minors, aged 14 and 16, were heard after going themselves to the gendarmerie.
Finistère under surveillance
Elsewhere in Finistère, the few fires that reignited on the Monts d’Arrée on Saturday afternoon are fixed, two weeks after the fires that destroyed nearly 1,800 hectares of vegetation in the same place. But the mayor of Saint-Rivoal, iguest of franceinfo this Monday morning, fears “the combination of high temperatures and rising winds”.
LIVE Fires in Finistère ➡️ “The situation has not changed overnight”, says Mickaël Toulec, mayor of Saint Rivoal in Finistère, who fears “the combination of high temperatures and rising wind”. “200 to 300 hectares” have burned in recent days. pic.twitter.com/s5PsaC7Uc4
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In the municipality of Brasparts, a fire destroyed 225 hectares of vegetation, it is “fixed but not mastered”, indicates the prefecture of Finistère on Twitter. In the town of Brennilis, a fire that destroyed 15 hectares of vegetation is under surveillance. 260 firefighters, supported by aerial means, were mobilized. In total, more than 400 hectares have burned in Brittany, report France Bleu Breizh Izel and France Bleu Armorique.
The Chartreuse massif on fire in Isère
A fire has been underway in the foothills of the Chartreuse since Friday evening, after a lightning strike. The fire is raging in the sector of the communes of Voreppe, Buisse and Sure-en-Chartreuse, indicates the prefecture of Isère.
During the night from Sunday to Monday, the flames continued to advance in areas difficult to access for firefighters, burning 80 hectares of vegetation, according to a latest assessment of firefighters reported by France Bleu Isère. 270 firefighters are still mobilized on Monday with 65 machines, including two water bomber helicopters. Reinforcements came from the Rhône, Savoie and Haute-Savoie. 140 people were evacuated.
Two fires set in the Dordogne
The two fires, which broke out late Sunday afternoon in the Dordogne, are fixed on Monday, France Bleu Périgord learned from the Dordogne prefecture. The firefighters had announced 110 hectares burned but after an assessment by drone, the prefecture revised its balance sheet downwards. She estimates that 86 to 88 hectares of the Double pine and coniferous forest have been destroyed.
To the Roche-Chalais, where the biggest fire takes place, 80 firefighters remain on site this Monday, according to Mayor Jean Michel Sautreau. There were no injuries and a “investigative work will continue to find the origin of these fires”concludes the aedile.