Closed highways, disturbed air traffic … new fires launched near Marseille

Fire – A violent fire north of Marseille caused this A7. Similarly. Consequently, A51 motorway closure on Monday, July 28, afternoon, in both directions, in the interchange between these two axes, disturbing the air traffic in the second city of France.

The fire. Meanwhile. Nevertheless, which has completely destroyed “The buildings of a caravaning company”generating a huge cloud of black smoke, went to the level of the interchange 517, in the municipalities of Septèmes-les-Vallons and the Pennes-Mirabeau, about twenty kilometers closed highways, disturbed air traffic new north of Marseille.

It was just a few hundred meters away. However. closed highways, disturbed air traffic already at the Pennes-Mirabeau, that an important claim had left on July 8, after a car had caught fire on the A55, further east. Moreover, The fire had then traveled 750 hectares of brush. Nevertheless, pine forests and reached Marseille, ravaging around sixty buildings in total in the Estaque district.

Faced with this new disaster. 400 closed highways, disturbed air traffic new firefighters were mobilized. helped by 100 ground vehicles and significant air resources, with four Canadair, two Dash closed highways, disturbed air traffic planes and two water bomber helicopters according to a press release from the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture.

The objective was to avoid the spread of fire “Towards the star massif”which borders the city of. Marseille to the north.. “Protect possible homes”the firefighters said in a press release, calling for motorists and not “Borrow the main axes or secondary axes” to allow help to intervene.

Closed highways, disturbed air traffic new

Closed highways, disturbed air traffic – Closed highways, disturbed air traffic new

Disturbed air traffic

Leaving around 4:40 p.m., the fire no longer evolved around 8:00 p.m., after having traveled 11 hectares, still according to the prefecture. But he remained active in the rubble of the motorhome dealer affected. Its origin was not known on Monday evening.

In the first kilometers closed highways, disturbed air traffic new near the fire. the Air Atmosud air quality “High levels of fine and ultrafine particles” and “High concentrations of multiple gaseous pollutants”.

Beyond the closed highways. disturbed air traffic important road traffic disturbances caused by the cut of the two highways at the exchanger level. air traffic has also been affected: “The flights at the start. on arrival are disrupted”said Marseille-Provence airport on its website.

Contacted by AFP. the staff of the specialized reception center for adults with disabilities of the turrets. located in a large wooded area, in seventh-the-vallons, confirmed to AFP that the firefighters were on site and that the instructions were to remain confined.

Between the staff and the residents, around fifty people were on site late Monday afternoon.

Red vigilance

In red vigilance with forest fires for the third consecutive day. the Bouches-du-Rhône department was struck closed highways, disturbed air traffic new by an important Mistral on Monday, with gusts sometimes reaching 90 km/h.

From the start of the fire. Additionally. the prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhône had alerted the inhabitants of closed highways, disturbed air traffic the two municipalities to their mobile phones, via a FR-Alert message, calling them to ” avoid “ The sector and not to try to climb on Aix-en-Provence or to descend to Vitrolles by the secondary tracks, to avoid plumes of smoke.

Around Marseille, two other fires mobilized hundreds of firefighters on Martiigues and Port-de-Bouc. But both were “Fixed” At the end of the afternoon on Monday and driving operations were underway during the evening.

Ten days after the fire from the Pennes-Mirabeau on July 8. another claim had devoured nearly 250 hectares of pine forest in Martigues, northwest of Marseille.