The situation is improving in the Jura.
While one of the two fires that broke out in the Cornod and Vosbles-Valfin sector could be fixed on Thursday, after having reduced 160 hectares to ashes, the spread of the second in the sector of the municipalities of Vescles and Cernon been slowed down.
“At 10:30 p.m., it is estimated that nearly 500 hectares” the burned area, specifies the prefecture.
Teamwork between firefighters and farmers "who lent them a hand".
During Thursday afternoon, aerial means “made it possible to slow down the spread”: two water bomber helicopters thus carried out 110 drops, “allowing to cut the advance of the fire and significantly reducing the volumes of smoke”.
"At 7:00 p.m., four canadairs arrived on the fire zone and refueled on Lake Vouglans", carrying out "23 drops of 6,000 liters", according to the prefecture.
“The entire town of Cernon”, where a power outage “related to the fire” affects 173 households, was evacuated preventively and around “250 people were sheltered, with a reception proposal” on the nautical base of the neighboring town of Bellecin, according to the same source.
The evacuees will be informed "when the security conditions are met to allow their return home", specifies the prefecture.
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