The setting of the legend of Merlin the Wizard and the Knights of the Round Table is burning.
A fire is underway this Friday in the mythical forest of Brocéliande in Brittany and already more than 230 hectares of vegetation have gone up in smoke.
The fire broke out around one o'clock in the morning in the town of Campénéac, about sixty km west of Rennes.
Two Air Tractor AT 802 water bombers "arrived last night from Sweden as part of European solidarity will intervene on the fire", announced the Morbihan prefecture.
They had landed Tuesday evening at Vannes aerodrome.
One hundred and fifty people were "preventively evacuated" from Campénéac, according to the press release.
About 200 firefighters are engaged, with reinforcements from neighboring departments as well as from the nearby military school of Saint-Cyr-Coëtquidan.
The forest of Brocéliande is a high place of the Arthurian legend, straddling the east of Morbihan and the south-west of Ille-et-Vilaine.
France was to quickly receive reinforcements in planes and firefighters from the EU as well as from five European countries to deal with the forest fires which are ravaging the south-west of the country in particular, Emmanuel Macron and the European Commission announced on Thursday.
Planet
Fire in Ardèche: The fires have already burned 320 hectares and are "far from fixed"
Planet
VIDEO.
Hundred-year-old trees and legendary characters, a little tour in the forest of Brocéliande
Company
Planet
Fire
Fire
Forest fires
Brittany
Forest