A campsite of 400 people under the threat of fire evacuated in Castellane

The fire is spreading at full speed.

Some 400 people were preventively evacuated from a campsite in Castellane in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the face of the progression of a fire which has already covered 350 hectares in the neighboring town of Rougon, we learned on Wednesday at the prefecture.

🚨 Forest fire - municipality of Rougon 🚨

Situation update at 11:00 p.m. pic.twitter.com/zGNIlGcO3i

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The fire broke out on Tuesday in Rougon, a village perched on the heights of the Verdon Regional Natural Park.

Some 200 firefighters are mobilized to limit the progression of the fire which is still very active in areas difficult to access by land means.

"In view of the progression of the fire, the prefect of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence has activated the departmental operational center (COD) to preventively evacuate part of the Huttopia campsite located in the town of Castellane", announced the prefecture in the evening, stating that 400 people were evacuated between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.

The prefect on site Thursday

"The installation of holidaymakers in the premises opened by the municipality of Castellane to welcome them is in progress", it was indicated, referring to a temporary reception at the gymnasium, the village hall and the multi-activity room. from Castellane.

“They will be able to spend the night there in complete safety, their accommodation and food are provided by the Red Cross and the Civil Protection.

The situation will be reassessed tomorrow morning to allow them, as soon as possible, to return to the campsite, “said the same source.

The prefect of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence will go to the scene on Thursday morning to salute the action of the emergency and security services, the mayor and to discuss with the evacuees about this unusual experience, we added.

Another fire which has already covered 950 hectares mobilizes some 600 firefighters in the Ardèche where at least 350 people were evacuated from the small tourist town of Vogüé and surrounding campsites even if the fire did not cause any injuries or threaten to dwelling.

Earlier in the day, a fire that burned 800 hectares of vegetation near Montpellier had been fixed.

As a precaution, some 130 out of 500 inhabitants of the Aumelas sector had been preventively evacuated for the night.

On Wednesday, all "were able to return to their homes", according to the authorities.

These new fires come a few days after the two “non-standard” fires which ravaged nearly 21,000 hectares of forest in Gironde for twelve days and led to the evacuation of some 36,000 people.

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