The fire that started in Aude on Sunday, June 29, was under control Monday morning after burning some 400 hectares, we learned from the Aude prefecture and firefighters. “All the lights are fixed, we are the processing of the edges and the extinction of the strains”said a spokesperson for the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of the Aude. “The strategy now is to continue drowning fire”told the agency France-Presse the director of cabinet of the prefect of Aude, Amélie Trioux, estimating the surface burned by the fire at 400 hectares, while the firefighters first mentioned 300 hectares.
Vigilance remained on Monday morning on Monday morning, due to fears linked to unfavorable weather, with high heat peaks, a decreased humidity and a little wind, said Mr.me Trioux.
The A61 motorway between Toulouse and the Mediterranean, which had been cut Sunday between Lézignan and Narbonne due to the virulence of the flames, was reopened to traffic around 7 am, also announced Vinci Autoroutes, in a press release.
The thirty people who had been evacuated from a Bizanet campsite was still taken care of Monday morning while the 60 inhabitants of a subdivision, sheltered Sunday evening for safety, were able to return to their home.
More than 600 firefighters mobilized “at the height of the fire”
The fire destroyed « sept bungalows », “Two unusual accommodation”, “Three technical installations” et “A van”while one “House near the campsite was also affected by the flames”also specified the prefecture, the chief of staff of the prefect greeting “The beautiful impetus of solidarity” that the inhabitants of BIZANET showed to support each other.
More than 400 firefighters were still present to secure the area, after being “More than 600 at the height of the fire”underlined the SDIS, stating that nine firefighters had been slightly injured, victims of hot strokes, smoke and, for one of them, a fall.
The fire is gone “Of a barbecue, which [avait] a[é] transported to the highway, behind a vehicle, on a trailer »said on Sunday in Beauvau, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. A suspect was arrested and placed in police custody for “Involuntary destruction by wood and forest fire”told AFP the prosecutor of Narbonne, Eric Camous.
According to the first elements of the survey, it would be a merchant who, after a market, did not realize that his brazier was not extinguished. “This brazier with hot ashes that circulate and bring over more than 12 kilometers for seven fires of fire (…) It is a human error which for us has consequences of a major fire ”regretted Colonel Christophe Magny, commander of the SDIS of Aude, at the microphone of BFM-TV.
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