Par Metropolitan Writing
Published on Jun 17 ’22 at 5:56 PM
updated on 17 June 22 at 18:42
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The day was shaping up to be hot for the Hérault firefighters and she was. Since this early afternoon, garrigue and pine forest fires required the intervention of SDIS34 companies in several villages in the department.
First of all, to Guzargues, on the D26, at the height of the Triballe area, where a car, by the roadside, was engulfed in flames shortly after 3 p.m. The fire then spread to the nearby pine forest and grew, requiring a major mobilization on the part of the firefighters. In all, 5 intervention groups, 20 fire fighting trucksplus 3 canadairs, were in action to extinguish this fire. In all, this fire which has already ravaged more than 10 hamobilized 100 firefighters. At 6 p.m., the fire was set.
The fire having started outside the village, the dwellings were not threatened. The departmental road 26 which connects Assas to Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers was closed to traffic, as well as the exit of the Link.
SDIS overheated
Other outbreaks of fire requested the action of firefighters this afternoon. Since this morning, they have intervened 21 times, in particular at Poussan (2 ha), at Bousquet d’Orb (2 ha), or at Saint-Jean-de-la-Blaquiere where the fire was not yet fixed at 6:30 p.m. About sixty firefighters were on site, supported at the end of the afternoon by the canadairs who emerged from the intervention in Guzargues.
This fire of low scrubland and white oaks is difficult to access because it is on the side of a hill.
Firefighters will probably still have trouble starting again this weekend given the expected temperatures.
The SDIS also recalls the safety rules to be observed in order to avoid fire outbreaks during the summer.
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