While Emmanuel Macron announced that he would bring together the actors concerned by the fires at the Elysée to reflect on the means of fight and prevention, France is still burning on this Sunday, August 14. Several major fires have resumed in recent days, particularly in Gironde and Aveyron. Others were declared fixed by firefighters this Sunday, August 14, as rain and lower temperatures settle in France. We take stock.
In Gironde, the fire still not fixed but elected officials relieved by the arrival of the rain
“It rained, hallelujah!” : this cry from the heart of the mayor of Saint-Magne, Ghislaine Charles, reflects the relief of elected Girondins who have been facing the fires for several weeks. Because the cool night and the few showers of this night suggest a lull.
Never extinguished since July, the Landiras fire resumed strongly on Tuesday in the areas of Hostens and Saint-Magne. He is “tenuous” but “not fixed”, indicates the prefecture of Gironde this Sunday morning. He did not progress overnight but “risks of resumption” persist. 7,400 hectares have burned since the start of the week.
The rain calms the game in Aveyron, but the “fire is still active”
The fire between Lozère and Aveyron, which resumed on Saturday afternoon, “keep spreading”, indicates the prefecture of Aveyron on Sunday August 14 in the morning. The fire, which was fixed and in the process of being contained, experienced “a very virulent new beginning” in the municipality of Mostuéjouls, burning more than 500 additional hectares, in addition to the 760 hectares already destroyed since Monday.
“The fire is active”add the firefighters but “it has decreased in intensity” in the night from Saturday to Sunday, “due to a few rain showers”. He was heading east this morning, towards the department of Lozère, but also south, towards the place called La Muse, in Mostuéjouls.
Firefighters remain mobilized. They are more than 600 still on site. Reinforcements are expected. Seven preventive evacuations were carried out last night and no new evacuations are planned at this stage according to the authorities.
In the Jura, the fire resumed
The fires resumed in the Jura, Saturday August 13 in the middle of the afternoon, because of the wind and high temperatures. An additional 150 hectares went up in smoke in the Vescles and Cernon sector, bringing the number of hectares ravaged to 930, according to the latest report from the prefecture of the department reported on Sunday August 14 by France Bleu Besançon. As a precaution, it has prohibited access to the forests and woods of more than 220 municipalities, on foot, by bicycle or with a vehicle, until the end of the month. Two municipalities were evacuated yesterday at the end of the day.
⚠️ Due to the ongoing fires and new fire starts in the south of the department, the Prefect of #Jura issued a decree prohibiting access to woods and forests in municipalities identified as very sensitive to fire (level 3 risk – in dark blue on the map). pic.twitter.com/RDJ8FFWIgH
– Prefect of Jura (@Prefect39) August 13, 2022
In the Monts d’Arrée, no significant progression of the flames
The rekindled fire in the Monts d’Arrée, in Finistère, is still ongoing in the areas of Berrien and Brasparts but it is no longer progressing significantly, franceinfo learned from the Finistère prefecture this Sunday.
A few hearths and fumaroles persist in places. On the Brasparts side, 17 resumptions of fire were dealt with on Saturday, including 4 during the night from Saturday to Sunday. The area is under surveillance by firefighters in the Brennilis sector despite the absence of visible hot spots. Since July, more than 2,000 hectares have gone up in smoke in this sector.
Fires set in Morbihan and Maine-et-Loire
The fire which broke out on the night of Thursday August 11 to Friday August 12 near Campénéac, in Morbihan, is “fixed and under active surveillance”, announces the prefecture this Sunday morning. He destroyed 400 hectares of the Brocéliande forest, after “a big fire resumption during the night” from Saturday to Sunday. 180 firefighters are mobilized.
In addition, in Maine-et-Loire, a fire burned 160 hectares in the sectors of Trélazé and Loire-Authion, a few kilometers from Angers. He is “fixed and mastered” this Sunday noon, announces the prefecture of Maine-et-Loire on Twitter. Another forty firefighters remain on site to extinguish the residual fires.
#Fire fixed and controlled in the Trélazé /Loire-Authion sector (Brain-sur-l’Authion)
Another forty firefighters on site for the extinction of residual fireplaces#Forest fires #fire @Gendarmerie_049 #fires pic.twitter.com/FYygL4bshj– Prefect of Maine-et-Loire (@Prefet49) August 14, 2022