Brignoles Residents Return Home as a New Var Fire Is Brought Under Control
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The fire that declared itself on Wednesday in Brignoles is now fixed and controlled. But the fight is far from over as the temperature is now close to 40°C and the vegetation remains very dry. The anxiety does not leave the inhabitants met by our team. - "We are tired of it": in the Var, plagued by a new start of fire, the fatigue wins the inhabitants (Regions).
The fire in Brignoles in the Var covered 130 hectares. Four firefighters were injured and more than 600 people had to be evacuated. He has been "mastered" since Thursday 30 July in the morning.
In the Var, at the foot of the Gros Bessillon massif, where the fire has covered 4,500 hectares of wood and garrigue in eight days, threatening several medieval villages between vineyards and olive fields, these experts have been working for a week already. If climate change, with its repeated heats and extreme drought, increases the risk everywhere in France, "fire, accidental or criminal, is 90% of human origin", recalls fire captain Stéphane …
This new fire starts less than a day after the flames that devoured the Gros Bessillon, north of the commune of Varoese, have been fixed.
Less than 24 hours after the Gros Bessillon fire was fixed, a new fire broke out near Brignoles. Up to 700 people were evacuated.
While the fire from Pontevès was finally fixed, two fires broke out in Brignoles and Vidauban, in the Var, on Wednesday 29 July. The fire from Brignoles covered 60 hectares. An important ground and aerial device was deployed to limit the spread of these fires.
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