A “virulent” recovery of fire in Mostuéjouls, in Aveyron, burned an additional 500 hectares on Saturday. The fire baptized “Landiras 2”, in Gironde, is considered Sunday morning as “held”, but is “not fixed”.
Le Monde with AFP
At least 500 additional hectares burned on Saturday due to a resumption of fire in Mostuéjouls, in Aveyron, announced the prefecture, Sunday August 14, in a press release . In one week, 1,260 hectares of forest were destroyed.
The fire, which seemed to be around noon on Saturday “in the process of being circumscribed and soon turned off”, experienced a “virulent” cover in the afternoon, explains the prefecture, which adds: “The continuous fire of To spread to the east (in the direction of the department of Lozère), but also towards the south (in the direction of the place called La Muse, in Mostuéjouls). “
At least a thousand people were evacuated as a preventive basis from the village of Mostuéjouls, located about twenty kilometers north-east of Millau, and six hamlets close to this village (Comayras, Vors, La Combaurie, La Muse, Mas de Lafon and Liaucous).
Six hundred firefighters mobilized in Aveyron
“Reinforcements from at least three departments arrived around 1 in the morning”, Sunday, bringing the number of firefighters on site to six hundred. “Other reinforcements are expected in the morning” to consolidate the command device, specifies the prefecture.
Since Monday, this fire, which has not injured, has already required the evacuation of nearly three thousand people. They had since been authorized to return to their home or their place of accommodation when they were holidaymakers.
Wednesday, a man living in Lozère was indicted for “involuntary destruction by fire”. He is suspected of having accidentally triggered the fire, when a metal part of his trailer caused sparks by scraping the ground, setting fire to the vegetation on the side of the road, at the edge of Aveyron and La Lozère.
7,400 hectares burned in Gironde
The fire called “Landiras 2”, which ravages the south of the Gironde since Tuesday, is considered Sunday morning as “held”, but is “not fixed,” said the prefecture in a press release . The situation “considerably improved during the night” due to precipitation in the area, said Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Mendousse, the departmental fire and rescue service of Gironde.
The balance sheet of this resumption of fire, a month after the two gigantic fires of Landiras and the Teste-de-Buch, has been maintained at 7,400 hectares since Tuesday, but “the risks of recovery persist”, points to the prefecture, Who adds: “The remaining homes, the treatments of the edges, the covers of fire and the civil engineering works continue.”
“It fell between 10 and 30 millimeters throughout the sector, but on a land that was extremely dry. We know that it gives a respite but does not mean an end of combat. We know that if it Do not rain again in forty-eight to seventy-two o’clock, the risk will become significant, “said Arnaud Mendousse. “The humidity is high and the temperature relatively low, around 25 ° C, which will allow us to continue our efforts. The fire is absolutely not off, the soil remains extremely hot,” he underlined.
In the field, “important land and air means remain mobilized”, specifies the prefecture. Nearly four hundred firefighters from Germany, Romania, Poland, Austria, Greece and Italy always support the soldiers of French fire.