The Rougon fire in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, which has devastated 300 hectares of vegetation since Tuesday, could be fixed, announced the prefecture on Friday.
The Rougon fire in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, which has devastated 300 hectares of vegetation since Tuesday, could be fixed, announced the prefecture on Friday. “It nevertheless remains under close surveillance by the firefighters still positioned on the spot, supported by a helicopter detachment”, she insisted in a press release.
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Some 400 people had to be evacuated Wednesday evening from a campsite in Castellane in the face of the progression of this fire in the town of Rougon, a village perched on the heights of the Verdon Regional Natural Park.
In addition to the mega-fires in Gironde, several fires also affected the southeast this summer hit by a historic drought, with in particular 1,600 hectares going up in smoke south of Avignon in mid-July. At the end of June, 1,800 hectares had also burned on the French army training camp in Canjuers (Var), located not far from there.