At the end of the afternoon at 5:30 p.m., the surface traveled by fire was still 50 hectares, faced with a sudden progression 200 firefighters are mobilized in pine -elderly sectors.
Le Monde with AFP
A fire left at the end of the day on Monday, August 8 of the Massegros on Monday, in Lozère, triggered by an agricultural machine, had already traveled more than 400 hectares around 11:00 p.m. and won the neighboring Aveyron, noted a journalist Agency France-Presse.
The fire started because of an agricultural machine which, by scraping the very hot tar tar, in a context of a great drought, has ignited part of a departmental near the Massegros, north of Montpellier, According to firefighters. The surface traveled, from 50 hectares to 5:30 p.m., quickly evolved up to 400 hectares around 11:00 p.m.
200 firefighters from Lozère and Aveyron were committed, ready to fight all night against fire. Reinforcements arrived in the evening of Haute-Garonne. The firefighters have made the safety of several houses, without having to evacuate the inhabitants for the time being, they told the France-Presse agency.
Fire was evolving freely in very dense and difficult to access pine forest areas towards the Tarn gorges. Several departures of the late were noted along the RD32 (Lozère) and the RD9 (Aveyron), in particular at a place called Bombes, in Aveyron.
On June 18 and 19, 35 km from Mostuéjouls, another fire in Comprégnac (Aveyron) had traveled 430 hectares of forest, without making victims. Dozens of people had been evacuated as a precaution.
With already more than 47,000 hectares burned since the beginning of the year, France experienced in July a recorded surface record, according to the European Information System on Forest Fires (Effis), which holds comparable statistics since 2006.