“It’s dramatic, conifers burn like torches”
“It is dramatic, the territory of the town is burned at 70 % or 80 %. It’s lunar, it’s black, the trees are completely charred “testifies to the Monde Jacques Piraud, mayor of the village of Jonquières, where at least four houses burned.
“There is such a drought in the region that conifers who are away from the village burn like torches. This gives projected burning on tens of meters ”explains the elected official, who had evacuated preventively on Tuesday afternoon, the fifty inhabitants of the village. “The municipality of Talairan has made its municipal home available to us, and a retirement home has agreed to take the elderly. We have managed to house other inhabitants with individuals. There was a great momentum of solidarity ”explains Mr. Piraud.
Fire in the Aude: “It’s dramatic, conifers burn like torches”
By planet service
Flames with meteoric progression, 12,000 hectares burned, a plume of smoke visible over 160 km, and a heavy provisional human assessment, Wednesday August 6, in the morning: a woman killed in her home in Saint-Laurent-de-La-Cabrerisse and at least nine injured people, one very seriously, transferred to the Montpellier hospital, and another hospitalized in Narbonne; Another person was missing in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, the most affected town.
