While the fire was fixed this Sunday in Charente, a new fire broke out in the Arcachon basin where significant resources were deployed.
In Gironde, after the fire which ravaged 3400 hectares around Saumos at the start of the week, a new fire broke out on Sunday, this time in the Arcachon basin, behind the old municipal landfill of the town of Arès . He burned “100 hectares“of forest and vegetation and forced the evacuation of around 300 people”as a preventive measure“, according to the prefecture of the Gironde and the town hall of the commune.
Shortly before 7:00 p.m., the fire was “contained but not fixed“, announced the prefecture. Another fire in Magescq in the Landes, near a park of photovoltaic panels, had burned 105 hectares on Saturday.
The privileged criminal track in Charente
In the south of Charente, the fire which covered 350 hectares at the end of the week in Courgeac was declared “fixed” this Sunday. The criminal track is privileged. The authorities had identified a total of 16 fire starts on Thursday afternoon.almost simultaneouslyin five neighboring towns along the departmental road 24, about thirty kilometers south of Angoulême.
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The track of an arsonist is privileged: “The criminal origin of the fires leaves little doubt with regard to the location of the fires and their concomitance“, declared Sunday evening the public prosecutor of Angoulême Stéphanie Aouine, in a press release. “At this stage, of the 16 declared fire outbreaks, the technical findings allow us to establish four with certainty“, added the magistrate.
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Of the “additional investigations and expertiseare scheduled for the next few days. And to specify thatat this hour“, the arrest on Saturday evening of an arsonist caught in the act by witnesses in Montpon-Ménestérol in the Dordogne, about fifty kilometers away, “does not appear in connection with the events in Charente“.
Thursday, the fire had also affected the neighboring town of Nonac, traversing 20 hectares of pines and hardwoods before being quickly fixed, according to the prefecture. Nearly forty people had been evacuated from the area and the village of Courgeac had been confined due to heavy smoke.