The end of the third heat wave of the summer and the arrival of rains bring relative respite to firefighters in the face of the fires, Monday August 15, with fires now fixed in Gironde, Drôme and Jura. In Brittany, the fire which covered 630 hectares in the Brocéliande forest was also declared “fixed” Sunday morning, as in Maine-et-Loire. Between Lozère and Aveyron, around the Aveyron village of Mostuéjouls, the situation is “stabilized”after a recovery “virulent” between Saturday and Sunday. Follow our live.
A fire in progress in the Pyrénées-Orientales. A major fire started overnight from Sunday to Monday in Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes, north-west of the Pyrénées-Orientales, burning 105 hectares of vegetation, France Bleu Roussillon reports this morning. About 180 firefighters are deployed. Reinforcements from Aude and Hérault are expected.
In Landiras, residents can finally return home. In Gironde, six days after the resumption of the fire and after 7,400 hectares have burned, the fire is finally fixed. The evacuated residents were able to return to their homes. But the fire could resume at any time, and the firefighters remain vigilant.
The creation of a Ministry of Civil Protection is “more than necessary”estimates Eric Brocardi, spokesperson for the National Federation of Firefighters of France, according to whom this ministry “would make it possible to have simple and pragmatic information emanating from a single channel.”
In the Jura, more than 1,050 hectares of forest reduced to ashes. In total, four fires have blackened the massifs of the Petite Montagne du Jura, in the south-east of the department and no less than 1,050 hectares have gone up in smoke. “It’s historic”, according to the authorities.