The East Zone Operational Center (COZ) has just requested the immediate start of reinforcements for the south of France. 15 firefighters from the Doubs will lend a hand to the 1000 fire soldiers who face a terrible fire in the Aude.
The message fell around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 5, 2025. The Doubs firefighters are called to the rescue. The CBetween the East Zone Operational (COZ) has just requested the immediate start -up of the “Alpha” forest reinforcement column for the south of France.
“It is a priori a reinforcement on a virulent fire in the Corbières massif”indicates the SDIS 25. Even if “Their final destination department is not known at this moment, adds SDIS 25, it will be communicated to them along the way.”
For SDIS 25, this reinforcement concerns five devices and 15 specialized firefighters.
The Lagrasse campsite, near Ribaute, was evacuated. Several dozen people have been from accommodated in a multipurpose room in the town. In Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, the mayor also evacuated 50 people who were on the edge of the fire, reports the sub-prefect of Narbonne.
21 Doubs, Jura and Belfort territory firefighters had been mobilized for the first time this summer, and positioned preventively for several days, at the end of July, in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) due to a high-risk weekend, announced in this department. And they were hired at Pennes-Mirabeau, at the gates of Marseille. A municipality already struck at the beginning of the month by a large fire.
This is not the first time that Francs-Comtois firefighters have deployed in other departments. Several of them joined their colleagues from Gironde in July 2022.
