The first big summer fires, fueled by the heat of the last few days and the drought, did not result in any victims. Their causes remain unknown. Favorite heat
The first big summer fires, fueled by the heat of the last few days and the drought, did not result in any victims. Their causes remain unknown.
Affected by the heat of recent days and the drought that has gripped France, two forest fires have reduced the smoke to more than half a thousand hectares in total in the Gironde and the region. These first big fires of the summer, now repaired, did not have victims, and their causes remain unknown, even if, in both cases, the fires would have left the edges of the road, usually causing the assumption of human origin, yet to be confirmed.
In the southern Gironde, near the village of Le Tuzan in the Landes de Gascogne massif, the flames appeared on Monday afternoon in a “complex” fire and “virulent”, according to firefighters, especially due to the wind, sandy terrain and swampy, difficult to access, and the presence of young pine trees which ensure a solid density, favoring expansion.
It took the intervention of two Dash water bombers, two Canadair planes, and up to 180 firefighters — four of whom were victims of “heat stroke” — to tackle the blaze, which has ravaged more than 295 hectares, according to reports. balance fine-tuned Tuesday morning after flipping in a helicopter. This cloudy and cooler Tuesday – with a few drops of rain in the morning – made it easier for firefighters who had to monitor the area for several days to prevent it from recovering. About 150 of them were engaged in the middle of the day, working on the edges of the fire, “drowning” the terrain and gluing carpets with emulsifiers (foams).
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“The fire is not developing, but it is still a little active…”, summarized Lt. Col. Eric Pitault, Divisional Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of Gironde. On Monday evening, due to the smoke, a crowd of about fifty people living in the surrounding villages had to be evacuated, but no residential buildings were destroyed. In the Loiret, more than 250 hectares of forest and wasteland near Vienna-en-Val, in Sologne, were also consumed by fire overnight from Monday to Tuesday.
“All elements are connected”
No one was injured and only the garage of one home was destroyed, but it took up to 110 firefighters and 30 vehicles to finally bring the blaze “under control” on Tuesday morning, according to firefighters. Their task was complicated by the diffuse habitat of this region, which was forced to disperse much equipment to maintain the first houses.
In France, “for some time you have known the dryness of the soil as the air, so that all the elements for the outbreak of fires have been met”, said the spokesman of the National Federation of Fire Fighters (FNSPF), Eric Brocardi, who calls for great caution “Fires, therefore, can spread a little bit everywhere on the territory as a whole, and not only on the Mediterranean port, which may cause concern regarding the deployment of rescue forces in the entire territory”, he warned.
In Indre, for example, the Châteauroux airport is equipped to receive water bombers capable of defending the great forests of central, western and northern France, and potential protection includes prestigious places, such as Fontainebleau or Rambouillet, for aviation water bombers to be assigned to the site.
Summer “all-hazards”
At the beginning of July, FNSPF president Gregory Allione warned that the summer of 2020 will be one of “all-hazards”, recalling that for two years “the whole territory is now regularly affected” by drought and heat. In 2019, 15,000 hectares of vegetation burned, compared to 5,124 in 2018. “What seemed abnormal in recent years has become regular,” he stressed.
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A finding that will be tested this weekend where thermometers should rise strongly in France. But in the vulnerable southeast and Corsica, “at the moment the start of the summer is quite calm,” Bouches-du-Rhône firefighters said, noting that 46 hectares burned between July 1 and 22 in the department, down on other years.
Updated date: July 28, 2020, 3:58 p.m
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