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With the drought, the fire risk is maximum. After the Gard and the Var in particularit’s Île-de-France which in turn is on alert for forest fires. The National Forestry Office calls for the greatest caution, as in the forest of Fontainebleau in Seine-et-Marne, which is particularly busy at the moment.
Charred earth, blackened rocks, charred trunks… A plot of the forest of Fontainebleau (Seine et Marne) burned two weeks ago after days of drought. The firefighters had a lot of trouble putting out the fire, because the massif has many particularities. “The soil is peat. Peat is plant material which is very dry and which burns deeply, so the fire then spreads through the ground, over large areas and after that we have great difficulty in extinguishing the fire which is on the surface at the same time. visible, but also to drown this peat which continues to burn in the ground”explains the Lieutenant Colonel Olivier Compta, head of the SUD territorial group.
The fire alert is at its maximum in Île-de-France. To Fontainebleauup to 100,000 people visit this massif on weekends. “It feels green, fresh, but the soil is dry. All fires are man-made”, remember Virginie Veau, director of the territorial agency Ile-de-France Is ONF. Since spring, 3 hectares have burned in the forest of Fontainebleau, the busiest in France.