The fire, which seemed to be fixed in Mostuéjouls, resumed on Saturday afternoon, devouring 50 hectares and threatening 100 others.
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The nightmare continues in Aveyron. A recovery “virulent” fire, Saturday August 13 in Mostuéjouls (Aveyron), burned 50 additional hectares and threatens 100 others, reports the prefecture. This fire, which since Monday has destroyed more than 800 hectares between Aveyron and Lozère, appeared on Saturday around noon “on the way to being circumscribed and soon to be extinct”had then estimated the prefecture.
Faced with this new recovery, “an emergency accommodation center has been opened” to care for 130 people, while an unspecified number of other evacuees have found alternative accommodation themselves. Since Monday, this fire, which did not cause any injuries, had already caused the evacuation of up to 3,000 people who had since been authorized to return to their homes or places of accommodation when it broke out. were vacationers.
Hunting and fireworks prohibited
On Wednesday, a man residing in Lozère had been indicted for “involuntary destruction by fire”. He is believed to have accidentally started the fire, when a metal part of his trailer caused sparks as it scraped the ground, setting fire to the vegetation on the side of the road.
In addition, to avoid the risk of fire, the prefecture of Aveyron has notably temporarily banned sporting events in natural spaces, pyrotechnic shows or “any hunting activity or destruction by firearm taking place in the wilderness”.
In France, the surfaces of the areas ravaged by fires are three times greater than the annual average of the last ten years, and the year 2022 has broken records in the European Union since the beginning of the surveys, in 2006. In a context global warming, historic drought experienced by much of the European continent increases the risk of forest fires.