More than 3,000 people have been evacuated due to the fire between Loser and Aveyron, which destroyed at least 700 hectares on Tuesday morning, with no injuries, the municipality of Mostuejules in Aveyron told AFP. Leaving Masegros in Loser on Monday, the fire, which started with an agricultural machine, then spread to Mostuéjouls in Aveyron, an AFP correspondent said.
People were evacuated from the villages and camps of Rivière-sur-Tarne and Mostuejule as a precaution. “The flames were several hundred meters away, the gendarmes and firefighters came and told us to evacuate, we all had to leave in the middle of the night.“, – testifies guest rooms manager Gabin Castro, worried about his residence, tree houses. The fire broke out due to an agricultural vehicle, part of which, scraping the very hot tar on the road, in the conditions of great drought, according to the firemen, burned a part of the department near Masegros.
The area covered quickly increased from 50 hectares at 17:30 to 400 hectares by 23:00. More than 600 firefighters from several departments (Aveyron, Loser, Garde, Ayrault, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, Aude, Alper-Maritime, Tarn, Ariège, Haute-Garonne) were mobilized on Tuesday morning, the prefecture detailed.
150 hectares were destroyed in Charente
Several fires were reported along the RD32 (Loser) and RD9 (Aveyron), particularly in a place called Bombes in Aveyron. On June 18 and 19, another fire in Compregnac (Aveyron), 35 km from Mostuejules, covered 430 hectares of forest without any casualties. Dozens of people were evacuated as a precaution.
Loser and Aveyron are not the only departments affected by Tuesday’s fires. A fire broke out in Charente on Monday evening and still “in developmentIt destroyed 150 hectares of forest in southern Charente on Tuesday morning, the prefecture announced. Tuesday at 8 a.m.about 150 hectares of forest were destroyed, about 30 people were evacuated.The prefecture said in a situation report released in a press release.
More than 220 firefighters were mobilized to extinguish the fire.in development“In the town of Boisbret, bordering the sea on the Charente, and “Air assets are expected: a water bomber helicopter and a Canadair“As reinforcements in the morning, the prefecture added. About 200 houses lost power after two high-voltage lines were cut by network manager Enedis, according to the same source.
With more than 47,000 hectares already burned since the start of the year, France recorded a record number of burned areas in July, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), which has been keeping comparable statistics since 2006.
Source: Le Figaro
