A forest and vegetation fire which broke out on Friday evening in the Drôme has ravaged 180 hectares and injured several firefighters, the latter indicated on Tuesday August 9 to AFP, confirming information from the local branch of France- Blue.
Located on the Diois massif in the town of Romeyer, the fire “progress slowly” but “worry“the 240 firefighters on site, because”several accelerations» Caused by the wind, said Lieutenant-Colonel Ramon Navarro, senior management officer of the SDIS (departmental fire and rescue service) of the Drôme. “Three firefighters were injured: one from Gard who came as reinforcements was burned in the face and hospitalized yesterday (Monday) – he went out this morning (Tuesday) and is fine – and the other two, one from Drôme and a another from the Gard inhaled fumes“, he detailed.
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The fire is not fixed, “it is complicated because inaccessible to terrestrial means” and “it approaches some downhill dwellings“, alerted the officer, specifying that the firefighters are mainly positioned at the bottom of the summit, near the houses and hamlets along the RD 742. Since Tuesday noon, the firefighters have been receiving support from two heavy bomber helicopters and from a Dash. In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, a fire in Isère caused by lightning ravaged a hundred hectares, also slightly injured three firefighters, and was still not fixed on Tuesday afternoon.