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Hundreds firefighters mobilized important lights:
An important fire broke out on Thursday. Furthermore, July 17 in the afternoon, in the Brocéliande forest west of Rennes, where a hundred hectares of vegetation had burned in the late hundreds firefighters mobilized important lights afternoon, Morbihan prefecture on X announced.
The fire broke out around 4 p.m. For example, in the town of Tréhorenteuc. Therefore, in Morbihan, about sixty kilometers west of Rennes, and continued to progress in the early evening. Nevertheless, Nearly 200 firefighters from Morbihan and Ille-et-Vilaine were mobilized, according to the prefecture.
“The spread of fire is facilitated by the drought of vegetation. Nevertheless, marked winds”warns the prefecture in its press release, specifying that “Air reinforcements, Air Tractor and Dash 8, have arrived and started the drops on the fire site.”
Pelicandrome – The place of supplying water. delaying product for bombers of water – of Vannes Meucon has been activated, specify the authorities. “No house is threatened at this stage”assured the prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine. also mobilized, but several departmental roads have been cut and the population is asked to avoid the sector and to facilitate access to help.
The Brocéliande forest. very popular with tourists during this period of the year, had experienced very large fires in the summer of 2022. One of them had traveled more than 600 hectares and had destroyed around 400. This forest. which covers more than 9,000 hectares, is a high place of the Arthurian legend, straddling the eastern Morbihan and Ille-et-Vilaine.
No housing nearby – Hundreds firefighters mobilized important lights
In addition. in the Cévennes Ardéchoises, a fire has traveled nearly 40 hectares, said hundreds firefighters mobilized important lights the prefecture of the department, in a context of great vigilance on forest fires, due to drought. “Nearly 40 hectares have burned. 100 hectares are threatened”in a sector near the town of Valgorge, said the Ardèche prefecture at the France-Presse agency around 5:45 p.m.
No housing or sensitive point is nearby, state services said. Two departmental roads are closed during the intervention of the firefighters. A hundred firefighters are mobilized. 53 machines engaged, as well as two Dash civil security planes, a water bomber helicopter, two hundreds firefighters mobilized important lights recognition planes and a coordination helicopter.
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It is “The first fire of the season”according to the prefecture. The department was classified as yellow vigilance Thursday and orange Wednesday for forest fires. Weather conditions “Should be more favorable” In the coming hours to control the fire, estimates the prefecture. According to the department, the fire started in the passage of a wire, a machine allowing to brush the roadside.
On the social network X. the Minister to the Minister of the Interior, François-Noël Buffet, stressed that“Today the risk of forest fires concerns the whole territory”while thanking the firefighters hired in Valgorge but also in the Brocéliande forest.
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