A fire that started at the end of the day Monday from Massegros, in Lozère, triggered by an agricultural machine, had covered more than 400 hectares around 11:00 p.m. and reached neighboring Aveyron, noted an AFP journalist.
The prefecture of Aveyron announced Tuesday morning the evacuation overnight of a thousand people.
“Evacuations took place throughout the night.
Between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m., 1,200 people were thus able to be taken care of, ”she wrote on her Facebook account, announcing the arrival early in the morning of three Canadair from Gard.
An agricultural machine in question
The fire started because of an agricultural machine, part of which, by scraping the very hot tar of the road, in a context of great drought, set ablaze part of a departmental near Massegros, north of Montpellier, according to the firefighters.
The surface covered, from 50 hectares at 5:30 p.m., quickly increased to 400 hectares around 11:00 p.m.
200 firefighters from Lozère and Aveyron were engaged, ready to fight the fire all night long.
Reinforcements arrived in the evening from Haute-Garonne.
The fire moved freely in areas of very dense pine forest and difficult to access towards the gorges of the Tarn.
Several fire starts were noted along the RD32 (Lozère) and the RD9 (Aveyron), in particular at a place called Bombes, in Aveyron.
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