The forest and vegetation fire that broke out on August 5 in the Drôme was "still not fixed" on Saturday and the burned area now reaches 378 hectares, firefighters told AFP.
Caused by lightning and located on the Diois massif depending on the municipality of Romeyer, the fire “continues to develop, slowly but always, as it progresses on inaccessible massifs.
The fixing is complex and is disrupted by resumption of fire, “said a member of the fire command post (PC) of the Drôme firefighters to AFP.
No injuries or evacuation
For nearly ten days, the firefighters "continue to have reinforcements", continued the firefighter.
286 firefighters and loggers remain mobilized on site.
The resumption of fire continued in the northern sector of the fire.
“We are in the middle of the massif, we are trying to preserve the Vercors natural park and the national forest but there are no other issues, no evacuation and no injuries to report today (Saturday)”, a he however reassured.
The “few drops” insufficient to put out the fire
Monday evening, a Gard firefighter who came as reinforcements was burned in the face.
Two other firefighters, one from Gard as well as a Drômois, inhaled smoke.
“All three were able to leave the hospital” on Tuesday, assured the prefect of Drôme in a press release on Tuesday evening.
“A few drops” fell on the south of the department on Saturday but “the accumulation in millimeters may not have an impact on the fire”, because they were “weak”, added the firefighter.
The interventions of aerial means (Pelikan and heavy water bomber helicopter (HBE) "made it possible to limit the progression" of the fire, for his part specified the prefect of Drôme in a press release on Saturday evening.
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