The fire which covered 850 hectares of vegetation in the mountain of Alaric (Aude) on Saturday was still not fixed this Sunday morning and the firefighters fear "a risk of resumption because of the drought", they said indicated.
“We had a lull starting at 3:00 am.
A house was burnt down during the night in Moux but we were able to save about fifteen houses between Foncouverte and Fabrezan, ”said Commander Jean-Michel Dubois, of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Operational Center (Codis) on Sunday. the Aude.
"The situation is delicate, complicated, because we have 25 kilometers of edges on which the fire can resume," added the officer, specifying that 800 firefighters had worked all night.
The emergency services determined this Sunday morning if new air assets were going to be deployed, while at the height of the day on Saturday Sept. Canadair, two Dash-type water bombers and a Super Puma helicopter made rotations on the mountain. Alaric, a massif which rises to 600 m.
The fire broke out early Saturday afternoon for an unknown reason on the central median of the A61 between the towns of Moux and Foncouverte.
This fire caused power cuts in France, Spain and Portugal on Saturday afternoon for about an hour.
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