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A worrying fire resumed in the afternoon of Wednesday June 29 in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Eight fire outbreaks were totaled, destroying 1,100 hectares on Tuesday June 28. The prefect announced that there would be inquiries.
The firefighters fought all afternoon against dozens of resumptions of flames which left them no respite. In the air, the planes work on an assembly line and dump liters of water. Their absolute mission is to preserve threatened dwellings. On the ground, you have to go quickly because the slightest smoke can turn into flames. “We wet as much as possible to extinguish the underground embers“, said a firefighter.
300 meters away, a couple observes powerless his house which he has just urgently evacuated for the 2nd times in 24 hours. “A fireman came running and shouted to me ‘we must evacuate now, immediately’ so I left without my shoes, taking the minimum“, says the woman. No dwellings have been damaged but on the side of the vegetation, 1100 hectares went up in smoke. The fire is still progressing slowly but firefighters hope to bring it under control overnight.
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