The fire in the Drôme is fixed, said the firefighters of the department on Friday evening. In all, he burned 200 hectares for 250 traveled. "The fire should no longer progress, so it is now a question of extinguishing all the residual fires so that there is no resumption of fire", as was the case on Thursday afternoon, explained the commander. Dominique Lemblé, specifying that 260 firefighters were still mobilized.
Up to 320 firefighters in the field
The fire broke out on Wednesday in a pine forest with very rugged relief in the town of Montguers in the south-east of the department. It was then set Thursday morning, before resuming in the afternoon and then extending into the night, "fanned by the wind", according to Lieutenant-Colonel Christophe Duringer.
The firefighters were up to 320 on the ground to try to control the flames, despite an intervention complicated by the geography of the area: isolated, devoid of homes and with very few tracks. In particular, the emergency services called on tactical teams to light backfires.