The fire is set at Cap Fréhel, end of evacuations
The fire, which covered 38 hectares of moorland on the emblematic Cap Fréhel, was contained and the approximately 240 residents and campers, who had been preventively evacuated, were able to return to their accommodation, the Côtes-d’Armor prefecture announced on Tuesday.
“The fire-fighting operations successfully undertaken since July 12 made it possible to contain the fire to 38 hectares, and to save nearly 600 hectares of the Grand site du cap d’Erquy-cap Fréhel”, welcomes the prefecture in a press release. The Côtes-d’Armor firefighters, supported by reinforcements from Ille-et-Vilaine and two Swedish water bomber planes, managed to “fix the fire” early Monday evening.
The fires covered more than 1,900 hectares in Fontainebleau
The fires which have been raging since Sunday afternoon in the Fontainebleau forest had covered more than 1,900 hectares on Tuesday morning, we learned from the Seine-et-Marne firefighters.
This figure, which dates from the middle of the night, should change during the day, while the fire continues to progress, declared Commander Paul-Edouard Laurain, spokesperson for the departmental fire and rescue service (Sdis). The approximately 850 firefighters fighting the flames hope to contain the fire during the day, he said.
