Two separate fires ravaged around 40 hectares and mobilized the Aveyron firefighters this weekend without causing any casualties.

The firefighters had to secure several residents of Dazes and the place called La Portonerie.

These municipalities were indeed threatened by an outbreak having declared itself in Espeyrac, reports France 3 Occitanie.

Although considered not very violent by professionals, the flames were still progressing this Sunday.

Some of the human and material resources mobilized were nevertheless able to leave the premises this Sunday evening.

Drowning operations were still planned on site this Monday.

Dozens of firefighters

A total of forty firefighters from two forest fire intervention groups intervened.

A Civil Security DASH plane had also been mobilized.

The same device was deployed to contain another fire in Saint-Affrique (Aveyron).

Now under control, the flames required the protection of four homes and destroyed 15 hectares of land.

A man indicted for the fire between Lozère and Aveyron

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