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A fire “inaccessible” to ground teams traveled this Monday “450 hectares” of maquis in the town of Santo-Pietro di Tenda in Haute-Corse, without threatening habitation.

“We cannot say that the fire is fixed but the two edges are in clear regression”, indicated this Monday evening the lieutenant-colonel Thierry Nutti, officer of duty of Codis 2B, after 56 drops of the engaged helicopters, 60 of the planes Pelican-type water bomber and six retardant drops.

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A fire “inaccessible” to ground teams ravaged this Monday “at least 200 hectares” of maquis in the town of Santo-Pietro di Tenda in Haute-Corse, without threatening habitation, told AFP a fire department spokesperson.

This fire, which was reported to the firefighters at 8:40 a.m., covered “a minimum envelope of at least 200 hectares” in this town of Haute-Corse located about twenty kilometers from St-Florent, a very seaside village. popular with tourists in the summer.

A second outbreak of fire 800 meters from the first could be stopped and only burned “3 to 4 hectares”, said Lieutenant-Colonel Thierry Nutti, duty officer of Codis 2B.

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While several firefighters were injured trying to respond to the fires near Aubais, in the Gard, the mayor of the town Angel Pobo clarified on our antenna that their lives are not in danger.

“The firefighter seriously injured, his life is not in danger, he is much better. The others were slightly injured,” he reports on Monday. “Apart from these unfortunately injured firefighters, we have no other injuries in the town.”

“In the area that caught fire, there is not much traffic. There is a strong probability that it is of criminal origin”, he concludes.

He specifies that the gendarmerie must still collect testimonies to try to identify a suspect.

While 400 hectares of forests went up in smoke in Aubais, in the Gard, plagued by fires, Mayor Angel Pobo declared on BFMTV that “the fire is almost under control” this Monday.

“Today, the fire is more or less under control. There are occasional reminders because there is a little wind. It’s a bit sad to see all this forest of which there is nothing left”, he declares on our antenna.

In an attempt to explain the causes of these fire starts, the mayor of Aubais evokes both the poor maintenance of the grounds and the scorching weather.

“Everything has accumulated: the weather, the state of our forests… As far as the town is concerned, we had started clearing things up in more dangerous areas than where it burned,” reports Angel Pobo.

After a short break at the end of July, temperatures have risen above 40°C again since Sunday in Spain, which fears a third wave of scorching heat in barely two months.

“It is possible that from Sunday July 31 to Wednesday August 3 or Thursday August 4, we will exceed the thresholds of intensity, duration and extent necessary to categorize this episode of high temperatures as a heat wave,” the spokesperson explained on Monday. from the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Rubén del Campo.

However, this episode would not be as extreme as the long heat wave from July 9 to 18, one of the most intense ever recorded, according to preliminary data from AEMET.

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July 2022 is “the second driest month of all months combined” in France since the start of measurements in 1958-1959, with a cumulative aggregate rainfall of 9.7 millimeters, Météo-France said on Monday.

So far, the driest month ever recorded is March 1961 with 7.8 millimeters of precipitation accumulated over the country, specifies Météo-France, whose first precipitation records date back to August 1958.

The fire started Sunday evening in Mano, in the Landes, “is no longer progressing”, announced the prefecture in a communicated this Monday.

The fire is “still ongoing” and its perimeter now covers “an area of ​​approximately 300 ha”, which includes burnt areas and others not, said the prefecture.

Forty people were evacuated as a precaution. No homes were affected.

Once again, Brittany will not be spared from the hot weather this Monday. The thermometer will climb especially in the east of Morbihan and the south of Île-et-Vilaine, with temperatures around 30 to 31°C expected. It will be up to 33°C in the neighboring Loire-Atlantique.

The fires continue to hit part of the south of the country, while the fire is fixed in the Gard on Monday.

Faced with serial fires, Lieutenant-Colonel Éric Agrinier warns, considering that the “risk of fires has been at a very high level for several weeks” in the region, on BFMTV.

“We are dealing with extremely aggressive fires, which are developing at an incredible speed”, worries the spokesperson for the SDIS du Gard.

The drought is hitting the south of the country hard, and in particular the Drôme at the dawn of a third heat wave. In part of the village of Clansayes, south of Montélimar, drinking water is even running out on Monday.

“The (groundwater) table is so low that we can no longer pump the water and send it to a reservoir. Our water tower is now supplied by tank trucks”, explains Maryannick Garin, mayor of Clansayes, in the Drôme, at BFMTV.

“Despite everything, we are at risk of running out of water if the trucks no longer fill our reservoir. This is not tenable,” he worries.

Good news on the fire front. If many hot spots are still active, the fire is now fixed in Aubais, in the Gard, announces the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of Gard this Monday morning.

“After a long fight last night (…), the fire was set in the second part of the night and the situation is currently favorable”, announces Commander William Borelly, spokesman for the SDIS du Gard, this Monday on France Info .

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The heat will return more intensely to the country on Monday. Caused by a heat wave coming from the Sahara, this third heat wave since the beginning of the summer should mainly affect the south-east of the country on Monday.

We expect up to 34°C in Lyon, 30°C in Nice and 35°C in Montpellier.

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