L’summer is not finished and the fires neither in series. Monday, shortly before 4 p.m., a Forest fire declared itself in the town of Aureille in the Alpilles massif in the Bouches-du-Rhône. Tuesday morning, the firefighters reassessed the area covered by the fire at 117 hectares of vegetation, once morest 136 hectares announced the previous evening.
The fire in the Alpilles massif “is no longer evolving” but is not yet completely fixed, indicated the firefighters of the Bouches-du-Rhone, supported in the field by their colleagues from neighboring departments and marine firefighters from Marseille.
Some 400 firefighters on site overnight
The very steep terrain required the mobilization at the height of the disaster of 600 firefighters, to fight once morest this virulent fire, fanned by a mistral sustained by winds of up to 90 km / h. During the night, some 400 firefighters remained on the ground in an attempt to “contain the fire to its current area” helped by the “coolness and humidity”.
“No material and human stake is threatened” for the moment, insisted the firefighters of Bouches-du-Rhône. The very steep terrain required the mobilization of a dozen air assets, including eight Canadair water bombers and three Dash. Tuesday, the Alpilles massif like three other nearby massifs will be closed being in red forest fire vigilance, warned the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture.