The fire which broke out this Monday at 5:15 p.m. in Jouques near Aix-en-Provence covered 10 hectares, including 4.6 hectares destroyed, learned 20 minutes from the firefighters of Bouches-du -Rhône.
“More than 100 firefighters were mobilized throughout the night to deal with the various hot spots and the difficult job of treating the edges,” says one on the side of the firefighters of the department. Access to the site remained difficult but the forest engineers created tracks with bulldozers ”. A hundred firefighters remain mobilized on the ground this Tuesday morning to ensure surveillance.