No injuries are to be deplored and no house was attacked by the flames.
The fires which ravaged 75 hectares of vegetation on Saturday and during the night from Saturday to Sunday in Morbihan were fixed on Sunday morning, the prefecture of the Breton department told AFP. “A fire in Meucon started last night and it is now fixed, the last fires in Locoal-Mendon and Erdeven in Morbihan were brought under control overnight,” said the Morbihan prefecture.
On Saturday, around fifteen municipalities in Morbihan were affected by fires in natural areas “whose spread was facilitated by the severe drought and the rotating winds”, according to the same source. In Erdeven, a coastal town located not far from the Quiberon peninsula, 25 hectares burned and around thirty houses, a castle including lodgings and a campsite were evacuated, i.e. around 300 people taken in charge by the town hall of ‘Erdeven and that of Belz. No injuries are to be deplored and no house was attacked by the flames.
The department’s call processing center had to manage nearly 1,000 telephone calls compared to around 300 usually during this period. Further west of the peninsula, in Finistère, two fires affected around 25 hectares in the Brennilis and Brasparts sectors. The fires, usually rare in Brittany, had already destroyed in July more than 1,700 ha of moors, fir forests and hardwoods on the Monts d’Arrée, a remarkable natural site.
According to scientists, the multiplication of extreme meteorological phenomena (heat wave, drought, fires, etc.) is a direct consequence of global warming, with greenhouse gas emissions increasing in intensity, duration and frequency.