fires, usually rare in Brittany, had already destroyed in July more than 1,700 hectares of moors, fir trees and surfaces covered with hardwoods on the arrea mountains.
Le Monde with AFP
Fire in Brittany burned, Saturday August 6 and Sunday August 7, more than 300 hectares of vegetation in Finistère and Morbihan, according to the prefectures of the two departments.
In Finistère, fires in the Arrée mountains, already affected in July by large fires, burned nearly 250 hectares of vegetation. In the Brasparts sector, “the fire is fixed but not controlled,” added the prefecture, with 225 hectares that have already burned. More than two hundred firefighters are present on site. In the Brennilis sector, the fire is fixed, with 15 hectares burned and forty firefighters on site.
Firefighters from other departments came in reinforcement-among others from Ille-et-Vilaine, Côtes-d’Armor, Calvados, Mayenne and Orne. “Many farmers are also present on site and lend their help to firefighters for the production of firewalls and the processing of edges with the slurry tons,” said the prefecture of Finistère.
fires, usually rare in Brittany, had already destroyed in July more than 1,700 hectares of moors, fir trees and surfaces covered with hardwoods on the Arrée mountains, remarkable natural site.
Direct consequence of global warming
In the Morbihan department, the fires ravaged 75 hectares of vegetation on Saturday and night. “A Fire in Meucon left last night and it is now fixed, the latest fires from Locoal-Mendon and Erdeven in Morbihan were mastered during the night,” said the prefecture of Morbihan on Sunday.
Saturday, fifteen municipalities in Morbihan had been affected by fires of natural spaces “whose propagation was facilitated by the strong drought and the turning winds”, according to the same source.
In Erdeven, commune of the coastline located not far from the Quiberon peninsula, 25 hectares have burned and around thirty houses, a castle comprising lodgings and a campsite were evacuated, about three hundred people, who have been taken care of by the town hall of Erdeven and that of Belz. No injuries are to be deplored and no house was attacked by the flames.
According to scientists, the multiplication of extreme weather phenomena (heat wave, drought, fire, etc.) is a direct consequence of global warming, greenhouse gas emissions increasing their intensity, duration and their duration frequency.