A fire during which a firefighter was seriously injured on Sunday and which destroyed 370 hectares of pine forest in the town of Aubais, south of Nîmes, could be fixed overnight, we learned from firefighters on Monday. – Gard firefighters.
A fire during which a firefighter was seriously injured on Sunday and which destroyed 370 hectares of pine forest in the town of Aubais, south of Nîmes, could be fixed overnight, we learned from firefighters on Monday. – Gard firefighters. “Fire set (content) in the second part of the night with an unchanged toll since yesterday evening: approximately 370 hectares (burnt), two homes affected by the flames, two sheds and a mobile home burned, and above all dozens and dozens of houses preserved and a human toll of zero casualties among civilians,” firefighter spokesman Colonel Eric Agrinier told AFP.
The device was slightly revised downwards at the end of the night, but around 400 firefighters were still engaged on Monday morning and two helicopters were soon to start again to “help treat the edges”, while “the treatment and surveillance work will continue. continue of course throughout the day,” he added.
“Four firefighters are injured,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Sunday in a tweet about the fire that broke out around 3:00 p.m. in a pine forest in Aubais, a village of 2,000 inhabitants, in a department in extreme fire risk and which will be on heat wave orange vigilance from Monday noon, like four other departments of the South-East (Drôme, Ardèche, Vaucluse, Pyrénées-Orientales). One of them, “seriously injured”, was evacuated by helicopter to the Montpellier Hospital Center for burns to the hands and face, the other three, more slightly injured, were victims of a “hot stroke” following a reversal of the flames by the wind which partly destroyed their vehicle, Colonel Agrinier told AFP. The vital prognosis of the hospitalized firefighter is not engaged, said Sunday evening the communication of the firefighters. As a safety measure, the A9, which serves Spain in particular, had been closed for around three hours in both directions for traffic over ten kilometers between Lunel and Gallargues due to the smoke.