Saint-Marc-Jomegard
It was August 28, 1989, in the morning. That day, a rare contagious fire broke out in the Sainte-Victoire massif, a sudden outbreak that started from the town of Saint-Marc-Jamegard, which destroyed 5,000 hectares of vegetation, mostly Aleppo pines, on this southern side. The mountain is lovingly painted by Aixois Paul Cézanne. “Three hundred firefighters could not overcome the intensity of the fire, the swings of fire could reach five hundred meters.” Thirty-three years later, the mayor of Saint-Marc-Jomegard still remembers perfectly.
In three days, the fire ignites the dry vegetation, the flames move with speed “hallucinatory” recalls Jean Catala of the Friends of St Victoire, a lover of the place saw the fire spread again, “top to top”. On the way, where he witnesses the burning of Saint-Victoire, Jean Catala confesses that he was scared.
An exceptional fire like…
Source: Le Figaro
