Nearly 150 firefighters came to the end, on Saturday night, a fire that burned about 170 hectares of vegetation in Ardeche, mobilizing nine planes but no casualties, announced the prefecture Sunday. The fire broke out on Saturday around 13 hours south of Aubenas-Lanas aerodrome. The fire "is off since 00H40," said the prefecture Sunday morning on Twitter. "Balance sheet: 170 hectares traveled by fire."
Four homes threatened for a time
The flames have a time threatened four isolated homes, protected by firefighters and finally spared, and sixty people evacuated from a campsite "as a preventive" were able to return to the scene at 8 pm Saturday night. Nine aircraft were mobilized, including six Canadairs, relaying to support 150 firefighters on the ground, whose intervention was complicated by the wind with gusts at 50 km / h. Twenty gendarmes were also mobilized, including investigators quickly arrived on site to try to determine the causes of the fire. No track was currently preferred.
In addition, four fire starts were caused Saturday evening in the same department by fireworks fired as part of the festivities of July 14, said the prefecture on Sunday, confirming information Dauphine Libere . The firefighters intervened quickly to control these beginnings of fire, according to the same source, stating that about 2,000 m2 of vegetation were consumed in four communes.