A woman killed in the “most important fire in summer”, 11,000 hectares now traveled

In a press release, the prefecture of the Aude delivers a situation point at 5.30 am this Wednesday, the day after the biggest fire in the summer in France.

“The evolution of fire is very rapid and it has already traveled 11,100 hectares spread over 15 municipalities”, traces the prefecture. “The fire remains very active and the weather conditions will still be unfavorable this August 6,” it deplored.

The prefect calls for the prudence of everyone and asks the population to avoid the sector, not to clutter the urgency call lines unnecessarily and to remain informed of the situation, without relaying “false information”.

In its forecasts devoted to forests, Météo France ranked Aude on orange fire alert this Wednesday, as is also the case for seven departments of the Mediterranean coast.

Tuesday, departing from the fire, the department of Aude was on red alert, at a “very high” level of danger to the lights.

These forecasts are announced every day depending on weather conditions – high temperatures, lack of rain, low air humidity, wind strength … – which can worsen the risk of forest fires and vegetation.

The forest weather does not provide information on current fires and does not provide for flame departures.

This night, two campsites hosting around 500 people were evacuated as a precaution in the tourist town in La Palme. Vacationers were taken care of in a town hall to spend the night.

1,500 firefighters are still in the fight against the flames and will be joined by air forces from daybreak. The fire progresses towards the coast and must reach the A9 motorway, which runs along the Mediterranean.

There, a large device of firefighters will try to stop its progress. For this, the A9 motorway, which runs along the Mediterranean between Montpellier and Barcelona, was closed Tuesday evening in both directions of traffic.

In Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, the inhabitants were surprised by the flames. At the end of the afternoon at the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, the wind blowing in gusts carried the fire to this village in Aude, where houses have burned.

“We were very afraid because we had the smoke, the flames that arrived,” said a resident of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse on BFMTV, where a woman died tonight.

“It happened so quickly. I had the spear to try to stop (the flames), but what can we do with a garden lance …”, adds Jean-Loïc, living in the village, whose house was reduced to ashes.

He adds: “It happened several times, but each time, we managed to save (the house). But there, we saved nothing at all.”

The announcement of the death of a woman in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse weighs down the human balance sheet This fire, which started on Tuesday around 4 p.m. on Tuesday.

The biggest fire of summer in France also made two injured among civilians, – including one in absolute emergency after being seriously burned – and seven others among firefighters, two of whom were hospitalized, said the secretary general of the Aude prefecture, Lucie Roesch.

A family also remains without news from one of their loved ones.

“The populations are asked to remain confined within their dwellings unless order of evacuation given by the firefighters,” insisted the prefecture of the Aude last night.

In several messages posted on social networks, it also calls on the population to avoid the sector and not to overload the emergency call lines unnecessarily.

“Fire is progressing in a sector where all the conditions are met for it to progress,” anticipated the secretary general of the Aude prefecture last night, Lucie Roesch.

“We are monitoring the edges and the back of the fire to avoid recovery. As soon as day rises, we will again have aerial means. This fire will mobilize for several days, it is a long-term project,” she added.

However, the fire “progressed slower” during the night due to a higher humidity level, she said. Shortly before 4 am that night, the fire approached Roquefort-des-Corbières.

The Aude prefecture announces this morning that a woman died in the disaster, in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, in Aude.

The fire led to the closure of the A9 motorway axis last night, between Perpignan and Narbonne, as well as several sections of the A61.

“The A9 is closed between Perpignan and Narbonne, in both directions. A working hypothesis is that the fire approaches the highway,” Lucie Roesch, sub-prefect of Aude, told AFP.

According to the sub-prefect of Narbonne, Rémi Récio “three or four houses” were seriously affected by fires and a “thirty vehicles” burned in the eight communes affected by the flames, including Ribaute, Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, Tourissan, Jonquières and Coustouge.

Currently, thousands of households are deprived of electricity.

In an attempt to stem the progression of the fire, some 1,500 firefighters are on the ground, assisted in the air by nine Canadair, five dash and two water bomber helicopters.

“More than 300 vehicles” are currently mobilized in Aude, said last night on BFMTV Rémi Recio, sub-prefect of Narbonne.

Hello and welcome to this direct devoted to the violent fire which ravages the Massif des Corbières, in Aude. The flames, which declared themselves around 4:20 p.m. in Ribaute yesterday, continue to gain ground.

This morning, 11,000 hectares were traveled by fire, appointed by the authorities as “the most important in summer”. According to the last human assessment, nine people were injured: two civilians, including “a person in a seriously burned absolute emergency”, and seven firefighters.