A fire that broke out on Monday August 11 at the end of the afternoon in the Massif de la Double on Monday in the south of Charente, is now “Fixed and mastered”The prefecture of the department announced Tuesday morning. At 5 am, some 300 firefighters managed to master the fire, who left Saint-Vallier, said the prefecture.
“The fire has not progressed during the night” had reported BFM-TV earlier. The hundreds of firefighters mobilized were helped by Dash and Canadair water bombers. “The fire soldiers are now proceeding to the drilling of hot spots”said the news channel continuously.
Several dwellings had been preventively evacuated on Monday by the police, according to the prefecture. According to the newspaper Charente Librethese were residents of the hamlets of Brossac and Saint-Vallier.
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In addition, the Enedis teams had carried out preventive electricity cuts, affecting around 700 people in 12 municipalities, added the prefecture. The high -speed line was also closed to traffic by the SNCF and the trains were diverted on the classic rail line.
The Charente is placed in orange alert for the risk of forest fires by Météo-France and in a heat wave.
In September 2022, two fires had ravaged 400 hectares of pine and leafy forest in the south of Charente. This burned surface constituted “The biggest fire that Charente has known in its history”according to Charente Libre.
This fire occurs when, further south, a giant fire traveled 16,000 hectares in Aude, before being mastered on Sunday. About a thousand firefighters remained mobilized on Monday to avoid reactivations of this fire, the worst in the French Mediterranean around half a century.
