Thursday, August 11, 2016

Fires in the Rhone delta: wind raises concerns reversals, an investigation was opened – The World

“2500 hectares were burned in a fire party Rognac, who was arrested that night on the outskirts of Marseille, in the north of the city. 800 hectares burned in the portualo-industrial zone of Fos-sur-Mer. Some fires are already extinct, that of Rognac is set “, said the chief of staff of the prefect, Jean Rampon Thursday morning

Read the story. Fires: Vitrolles and Pennes-Mirabeau, “it was the Apocalypse”

on Thursday morning around 7 am, smoke and flames were visible again towards Marseille and Canadair resumed their rotations, has found a photographer with Agence France-Presse from the command post set up at the TGV station in Aix-en-Provence. “Strong winds susceptible to risks of reversals” said Mr. Rampon, and dryness of the vegetation is “concern” .



Firefighters Pennes Mirabeau on 11 August.

established to 70 km / h Thursday at dawn, the winds should not go up to 100 km / h as yesterday, which had caused major spot fires. “We are quite confident about the outcome of this crisis,” , said the delegate prefect Yves Rousset in World . The most worrying fire was set in the town of Les Pennes-Mirabeau, north of Marseille. “Today we can say that the fire was mastered but remains risk and wind-related concerns” , he has qualified.

Flames n ‘however not through the gates of Marseille, the fire has been “fixed” to Pennes-Mirabeau, behind a ridge that defines the boundary between the two municipalities. Marine brigade therefore not have had to carry out evacuations of residents in Marseille, “but if the situation is reassuring, we must remain vigilant, we are still in the attack phase and there still several hours of uncertainty, “, tells the World a communication officer of the marine battalion brigade.

the prosecution of Aix-en-Provence opened a preliminary investigation to forest destruction and injury, the starting point of the most important fire lying in Rognac. “We do not yet know the precise origin because investigators could not reach the scene in the reasons for the focus of intensity” says are we the prosecution.

the causes of fire are also indeterminate: “We have no idea about the voluntary or involuntary nature of this fire” . Specialist investigators should quickly gain access to the premises to carry on the first investigations

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  • Five Canadair and firefighters mobilized 1800

Some 1,800 firefighters were mobilized on claims, including 650 extra-departmental reinforcements added Mr. Rampon and a hundred policemen and gendarmes, 500 emergency vehicles, five Canadair (including 2 from Corsica), a Tracker, Dash 8 and two helicopters.

the prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhône announced on its website have “opened a crisis center and calls on the population to remain confined and especially not to clutter the roads to be used primarily by the emergency services’ .

“We deplore three injured by burns that serious in the population. Twenty firefighters were overcome by fumes, and a dozen police officers “, Mr. Rampon said. Many homes were damaged and some industrial buildings. A precise assessment is underway.

Some six hundred evacuees were sheltered part of the evening and night in places open by municipalities. The party fire ravaged Rognac including 1600 hectares in Vitrolles, thirty kilometers north of Marseille, who paid the highest price, and where 300 people were housed in gymnasiums for the night, according to John Rampon. Frédéric Paris, Chief of the Mayor, rated “between 6000 and 8000″ the number of people affected by the disaster in five districts, most remaining housebound. Pennes-Mirabeau, 730 hectares were burned.

The mayor of Vitrolles said on Twitter Thursday that those admitted are now allowed to return home, however, calling on residents to remain “very vigilant “.

in the Hérault, where another fire destroyed nearly 200 hectares, four firefighters were injured, three seriously. The fire was extinguished on Wednesday night.

Three fires in the industrial area between Fos-sur-Mer and Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône burned over 800 hectares in the late afternoon Wednesday. They are now under control, say aid. The situation was even more sensitive than the oil site of Fos was partly in flames.



fire Scene in Vitrolles, where more than a thousand people were evacuated Wednesday, August 10.

BORIS HORVAT / AFP

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After a winter and a low wet spring, the southeast of France is in a state of drought and water restrictions measures more or less drastic were taken in several departments, including Bouches-du-Rhône.

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