The airlines resumed the drops, with two milan engaged at 6 am, barely the day raised, Friday, according to the spokesperson for the Gard firefighters.
Le Monde
They prepare for a new day of struggle with 700 men and women on site. The big fire that has already burned over 600 hectares of vegetation since Thursday evening in the north of the Gard “is still active” Friday morning, according to firefighters.
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“It continues, but the fire progresses less quickly and no longer threatens a housing, fortunately,” said a spokesperson for the Gard firefighters early Friday morning, adding that many fire edges were not accessible “. He added that the air resources had taken up the drops, with two milan engaged at 6 am, barely the day raised on Friday.
The fire broke out around 5 p.m. Thursday in the hamlet of Bordezac, on the edge of the Ardèche, north of Alès. The inhabitants of this hamlet as well as a few others of bessèges had to be evacuated Thursday evening, and a hundred people were relocated, according to the prefecture.
of the “thousands of hectares threatened”
The Gard firefighters were quickly joined by columns from other departments, in total reaching the number of 700 fire soldiers and rescuers, according to a civil security tweet, which adds the intervention of 7 Canadiair , 3 dash, 2 beech, as well as the dragon 131.
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At midnight Thursday, the firefighters reported “thousands of hectares threatened” in this very wooded area, the fire being fueled by extreme weather conditions: a violent wind and very dry trees.
The sub-prefect of Alès, Jean Rampon, feared Thursday evening “a desolation show” in the morning, and feared an overflow of fire on the other bank of the cèze, “where 10,000 hectares had burned in 1985 “. Thursday, multiple other fires started in the Gard and the Bouches-du-Rhône, fortunately most were fixed before night.