A forest fire broke out on the night of Friday July 4 to Saturday July 5 on the very touristy blue coast, about fifteen kilometers from Marseille, traveling around a hundred hectares of massif without being injured before being “Stabilized”according to firefighters. This is the most important fire (in area) since 2023 in the Bouches-du-Rhône, on a heat wave since June 27.
The fire, which declared itself around 3:30 in a hilly massif particularly difficult to access in the town of Rove, is “Invested in the sense that most of the means have positioned themselves on edges”said Colonel Jean-Luc Beccari, departmental director of SDIS13, said during a press briefing. Nevertheless, he stressed, “There are still inaccessible edges that will have to be treated by an aeroterrestrial combination”.
The fire is “Stabilized, content, and no longer progresses”said the firefighters’ communication service at the France-Presse agency.
Nearly 350 firefighters and firefighters, supported by a column in eastern France preposed in the department, were mobilized, with the support of two water bomber helicopters and two Canadair.
150 hectares burned in Vienne
An investigation will be opened to determine the causes of the fire, when it is under control, reported the regional command of the gendarmerie. “We are expecting a temperature increase in the day, a drop in humidity, and a West-West West West West, which means that we will have to be mobilized a large part of the morning to secure it a maximum before the afternoon”said Colonel Beccari. One hundred and fifty people were “Preventively evacuated”36 by the sea, he said.
Crossed by the Massif de la Nusthe, the Rove, a commune of 5,200 inhabitants, is located on the very touristy blue coast which runs along the Calanques in the North West of Marseille.
In addition, an important fire has traveled 150 hectares of vegetation and crops in the south of Vienne on Friday, before being mastered in the night, without making any victims, we learned from firefighters from the department on Saturday.
Leaving at the end of the afternoon of a field in the town of Magnet, 30 kilometers south of Poitiers, this fire mobilized 90 firefighters and a gendarmerie helicopter. A hamlet, populated by a dozen inhabitants, was evacuated during the operations.
Since the end of June, the Department of Vienne has been placed in drought vigilance and subject to measures to limit water withdrawals.
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