Date : 01.07.2025 10:00:00
During this period of monitoring of school holidays and many outdoor activities, the Office of the Environment renews its call for caution for the fires in the forest and nearby, due to the marked danger of forest and brush fire (degree 3 out of 5) and the hot and dry weather conditions called to last in the coming days.
The summer temperatures that have been prevailing for a fortnight, combined with the lack of precipitation, dried up the litter and the forest soils. According to Météosuisse, the hot weather should be maintained and the announced precipitation will remain weak and localized in the coming days, so that these summer conditions should generally be maintained.
Faced with this situation, the cantonal authorities therefore ask the population to redouble their prudence and give up the lighting of fires when the security conditions are not met. Particular vigilance is recommended in the slopes exposed to the south, where the flammability of the vegetation can be more pronounced. This call for caution comes in a context of many outdoor activities linked to the end of the school year and the start of the summer vacation.
The Office of the Environment also recalls that the basic precautionary rules remain valid at all times: do not light a fire in the event of a strong wind, do not throw the cigarette butts, do not leave a fire without surveillance or leave it before its complete extinction, etc.
In the event of worsening the danger of fire during the summer, other measures may have to be taken and communicated, such as the temporary ban on making forest fires.
The current level of danger of forest fire, the measures taken by the authorities as well as various information on the theme is available at the following address: www.jura.ch/feuxforet and www.danger-intecendie-foret.ch
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