“Really awful”
“Suddenly the sky has become black“We testify Eric, a Belgian father on vacation in Canet, located about thirty kilometers from Ribaute.”My mother is installed there, each year we go down spending the holidays with her“, he details us.”Yesterday (Tuesday, editor’s note), we took the car to go swimming in an Aude stream, not very far from where the fire started. When we arrived, we already saw a lot of smoking and the more we were approaching, the more it was growing“Remember Eric.
The Belgian family then decides to turn around so as not to end up at the heart of this hell. “”It took us an hour to go back, and it continued to gain intensity. Suddenly the sky has become black when we arrived“He adds.”This morning, we were still inconvenienced by smoke but it’s better now. But there is a lot of wind and it could turn“, Continues our witness, who does not intend to leave the premises immediately.”We are surrounded by small towns, it is mainly urban, the first forest is quite far“Concludes Eric.
Fire in Aude (France): “An unprecedented catastrophe” according to Bayrou
“They were columns of smoke, clouds, it was really a bit of everything that was really like above the campsite, where you really said to yourself but what’s going on? We were a little stressed because of how we are going to do if the campsite will ever set fire“, testifies to RTL Léa, a Belgian tourist in camping in the region.
“We were very afraid because we saw the smoke and the flames that arrived towards us“, testifies a resident of Ribaute, the first village affected.”We didn’t see anything anymore, it was all black. Truly awful“Adds another resident at the microphone of BFM TV.