This Saturday, August 16, the fire broke out at the end of the afternoon in Lanet in the Hautes-Corbières. A hundred firefighters are already mobilized.
Updated at 7:10 p.m. The six intervention groups (Giff) already mobilized will receive the reinforcement of three other groups from the Pyrénées-Orientales. It is therefore now more than 160 firefighters and 36 vehicles to combat forest fires that are committed to master this fire which is currently in progress in a garrigue landscape. On the air means side, the intervention of four Canadians is also expected, in reinforcement of the Dash which has already made a first drop.
Updated at 7 p.m. The Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) has just revised down the first assessment of the area affected by Lanet fire: it was for the time 1.5 ha that was traveled. The intervention was also able to benefit from a first drop -in -law carried out by a Dash, already in the air for an aerial watch operation. The committed firefighters are mobilized to prevent the spread of the fire to a massif.
A start from the fire has just been reported by the Aude departmental fire and rescue service, this Saturday, August 16, shortly before 6:30 p.m. It was in Lanet, in the Hautes-Corbières, that the alert was given. The SDIS has mobilized six intervention groups of forest fires (GIFF) for this fire: there are 24 trucks and a hundred firefighters who are at work to try to master the flames as quickly as possible. The first assessment reports, at 6:40 p.m., of three hectares burned. This Saturday, August 16 is a day marked by a “Risk of forest fire is very important throughout the Aude department”had communicated the Aude prefecture on Friday August 15. This will also be the case on Sunday August 17, during which the department will be placed in “red alert”, the highest level of risk.
The prefecture had specified that “1,200 firefighters will be on alert in the department to ensure our security, including 270 engaged in the field, especially in fire surveillance missions, 150 to monitor beaches and water bodies and 330 on the continuation of the Ribaute fire surveillance”. The SDIS calls for “Avoid the sector for your safety and facilitate access to help”. And request not to “Not yielding to curiosity”.
