Colonel Grégory Allione speaks with an anger that is unusual for him. All afternoon, this Sunday, his firefighters fought ardently against a fire that broke out in Vitrolles, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, in an area along the A7 motorway. "It's a cigarette butt, I'm almost certain," annoys the departmental director of the fire and rescue service of Bouches-du-Rhône. The fire devastated nearly 30 hectares, in a place where a firefighter had already lost his life ten years ago.
However, in this busy area, very close to the emergency lane, no parked vehicle was spotted. An act that the colonel, also president of the national federation of firefighters of France, qualifies as criminal. “What do you call it when a cigarette butt throw can endanger 300 firefighters and 250 people? Can you imagine the consequences? "
Luckily, this Sunday, no injuries or heavy damage is to be deplored, despite a risky situation due to an absence of rain for 80 days. Shortly after the press conference given by the colonel on this fire in Vitrolles, another fire, on a larger scale, broke out a few kilometers away, in Istres.
Planet
Bouches-du-Rhône: A fire devastates 30 hectares in Vitrolles
Miscellaneous
Fires in the South-East: An "important" fire start in Rognac, "normal" recoveries in Martigues
- Cigarette
- Vitrolles
- Fire