The fire that broke out on Thursday in Anglet, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, is under control, but has destroyed 165 hectares of vegetation. "It's a disaster, it's crying," responded the mayor of the town, Claude Olive, on Europe 1. 

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The fire was brought under control, but the flames destroyed 165 hectares of vegetation. Friday morning, the inhabitants of Anglet, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, could only see the damage after a spectacular fire broke out on Thursday in a forest in the center of the town, affecting eleven houses, and making five uninhabitable. At the microphone of Europe 1, the mayor of the city Claude Olive expressed his dismay. "It's a disaster, it's crying," he says. 

"The spectacle we have in front of us is just distressing. There are no words," said the chosen one. "We manage this with the services of the State. The Minister of the Interior called me last night to tell me the solidarity of the government," he continues. 

"Part of the environmental heritage that has gone up in smoke"

"We have a specificity in our beautiful city of Anglet, it is that we do not have a city center, but we have a city with a heart, a green lung of 250 hectares", says Claude Olive. whereas the fire, of still unknown origins, ravaged the forest of Chiberta, a veritable island of greenery in the Bayonne-Biarritz-Anglet agglomeration. "You can imagine that it is a whole part of the environmental heritage of the city which went up in smoke last night", concludes the mayor.