One hundred firefighters, 20 gendarmes, 25 municipal police officers, a helicopter and 36 vehicles were mobilized to overcome the loss. At 4:30 p.m., the prefecture said that the fire was circumscribed.
Le Monde with AFP
A fire broke out at the Espiguette campsite in Grau-du-Roi, on the Gard coast. “The fire is underway: 52 bungalows would be affected,” wrote in a statement released in the middle of the afternoon on Monday, June 13, the Gard prefecture. The Gard firefighters broadcast aerial photos on Twitter showing thick gray smoke escaping from the heart of the campsite, located by the beach.
Fire to the King’s Grau: the @prefet30 opened the departmental operational center (COD) in the pref to follow the… https://t.co/vf99shexzz
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[#fire] point of situation n ° 3 to 4:30 p.m.
✅Feu circumscribed but still visible smoked
✅What of the wind, risk… https://t.co/kinmq8ywes
Some “100 firefighters, 20 gendarmes, 25 municipal police officers, a helicopter and 36 vehicles” were mobilized to overcome the loss. At 4:30 p.m., the prefecture said that the fire was circumscribed.
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The fire had declared itself around 2 p.m. in this campsite which has 2,028 locations and where “around 3,000 people were identified” on the register on Monday, the prefecture said. “At this stage, no one injured is to be deplored, with the exception of a firefighter [victim of a] heat stroke,” said the press release. “Vacationers have been put in safety or left the area by their own means to the City Congress Palace and the Yach-Club”, according to the same source.
series of fires in the Department
This fire occurs while forest fires declared themselves in the department, in Lédenon, Serviers-et-Labaume, Blauzac and that France will face, this week, a new particularly early heat wave. A depression located between the Azores and Madeira gradually brings back to Western Europe very hot from the Maghreb.
This hot air will arrive in France Tuesday by the Southwest where temperatures could already reach 35-36 ºC, before spread first on Wednesday, then to the north. For the southern half, “the big heat peak will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with 35 to 38 ° C”, or even 40 ° C locally, probably in the southwest, said on Monday at the France-Presse Frédéric agency Nathan, forecaster in Météo-France.