The fire which broke out in the foothills of Chartreuse on Friday evening after a lightning strike suddenly deteriorated overnight from Saturday to Sunday and now threatens two factories where gas is stored, reports France Bleu Isère on Sunday August 7. It is still progressing this Sunday evening.
The flames, which covered about fifty hectares of forest, descended in less than an hour in the night from Saturday to Sunday towards the departmental 1075, pushed by the violent winds. The road is closed in both directions between Voreppe and La Buisse. In a press release sent this Sunday at the end of the day, the Isère prefecture adds that the RD 520A is also cut at “all traffic“.
The inhabitants of several hamlets, in the communes of Voreppe and La Sure-en-Chartreuse, are “urged to evacuate“, adds the prefecture. The mayor of Voreppe, Luc Rémond, also specifies this Sunday on franceinfo that “two quarters“of his commune, located”at 300 or 400 meters” flames, were evacuated as a precaution. This represents “200 people“.”We have a large party room to accommodate anyone who wants“, adds the chosen one, who has ordered beds from the Red Cross.
#Fire Voreppe & La Buisse | As a security measure, 3 hamlets are being evacuated: Malossane in @voreppe Les Barniers and Les Côtes in La Sure-en-Chartreuse.
✅ Gathering points: Voreppe and Pommiers-La-Placette. ➕ info https://t.co/hkMTlBDoqw
❌RD 520A cut pic.twitter.com/W0tDozXF6C– Prefect of Isère (@Prefet38) August 7, 2022
Still according to Luc Rémond, the wind “calm down“this Sunday evening, “which will allow you to take a break, because these are sectors that are completely inaccessible by land“.”Two helicopters will attack first thing tomorrow morning“Fire fighting.
A hundred firefighters remain mobilized this Sunday evening. Four Canadairs and two planes”to disperse the retardant product will be mobilized, and a reconnaissance aircraft arrives in the area“, also announces the prefecture of Isère.
“We are on constantly changing parameters. Rather stable situations in the morning on the night out, thanks to a low temperature, a wind which is nil and then from noon, a wind which begins to rise and which is much more substantial in the evening“, details the commander of the relief operations, Philippe Letondeur, this Sunday at France Bleu Isère.