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While the origin of the mega-feu in the Aude has not yet been decreed, only one certainty resides: the fire started in Ribaute, probably at the edge of a road according to the gendarmerie. The mayor of the town is still in shock.
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By crisscrossing the roads of his calcined village, Alain Coste, the mayor of Ribaute (Aude), is in shock. Tuesday August 5, it was in the town that started the fire of an unprecedented scale. 16,000 hectares left for smoke. Everything went very quickly. The mayor returned to the scene, on the edge of the embankment, where it all started. “It was the return of the fire that came, which came back down and which took a site. He was an old garage who was being transformed into a house, but unfortunately, he was the prey of the flames”notes the councilor.
Twenty-five dwellings were affected by the flames and several municipalities evacuated. The mayor, upset asking questions today. The investigation is underway. A thrown megot is one of the hypotheses. The mayor shouts his anger. “How can we be as unconscious to take the risk of provoking such a terrible consequences? We still have a person who died. We have firefighters who are seriously injured. It is countless”, Mistigeage Alain Coste. In Ribaute, we are waiting for answers. A call for witnesses was launched.
