“The fire is developing unfavorably”: the Gard affected by a major fire, more than 600 hectares … – BFMTV

A fire “in very unfavorable evolution”, “in dense vegetation”, towards the remote hamlet of Bordezac, in the Cévennes massif, north of Gard, worried the emergency services this Thursday evening. The firefighters were preparing to fight all night against a violent fire in the north of Gard on Thursday, at the end of a day marked by multiple fire starts in this department and the neighboring Bouches-du-Rhône, fueled by “extreme weather conditions”. evening, it was above all a fire “in very unfavorable evolution”, “in dense vegetation”, towards the remote hamlet of Bordezac, in the Cévennes massif, north of the Gard, which worried the emergency services. Started around 5:00 p.m., the fire had already affected more than 600 hectares, according to the prefect of the department. Gard.”This is an extremely unfavorable and very critical situation in the area, because the wind is not calming down and it is not going to calm down tomorrow!, feared this firefighter manager. It will continue tonight and several days”. Thirty inhabitants already evacuated At 8 p.m., the firefighters recommended to the inhabitants of Bessèges and Gagnières to “remain confined to their homes”, recalling that “only the security services can decide on the evacuation”. This order to evacuate has already targeted around thirty inhabitants of the hamlet of Bordezac, “put to safety in a restaurant” in a neighboring town, Jean Rampon, the sub-prefect of Alès, told AFP at the PC des firefighters in Bessèges.”A house burned down and the village was saved in extremis by r the firefighters”, said Mr. Rampon who testified to a wind “still virulent, blowing south-southeast but sometimes changing direction”. On site, 150 firefighters were already mobilized Thursday evening, waiting for 350 others reinforcements. Significant air resources were also mobilized, with 6 Canadair and two Dash. 35 fire starts in the Bouches-du-Rhône Another fire was still raging Thursday evening in the Gard, in Générac, in the south of the department. Faced with this fire which covered 150 hectares of low vegetation and pines, 50 machines and 120 men were mobilized. It was on the territory of this same commune of Générac that the pilot of a Tracker 22 had lost his life in August 2019 fighting a violent fire that had burned 800 hectares of vegetation. In the neighboring department of Bouches-du-Rhône, firefighters had to deal with no less than 35 fire outbreaks during the day. And in particular in Arles, around noon, with a fire starting from reeds and brushwood in a commercial area.