Nature already suffers from the lack of water.
Placed on drought alert last week, the Var department saw a major fire break out on Saturday late afternoon.
Fanned by the wind, the fire quickly covered about thirty hectares, destroying about ten of vegetation.
Sixty firefighters from the Var and eighteen vehicles intervened on the fire and managed to limit its spread overnight.
An isolated farmhouse, which was in the path of the fire, could be effectively defended, firefighters said.
A network of boat GPS thieves dismantled
Justice
Var: A policeman sentenced for violence on a passerby
Miscellaneous facts
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