“Four fires in the High Pays de Menton” declared themselves on 300 hectares, details the deputy departmental director at the SDIS of the Alpes-Maritimes. For the time being, no information confirms or deals with the criminal fire track, he said.
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For more than 48 hours, the Roya Valley in the Alpes-Maritimes has faced several fires. In total “Four fires in the High Pays de Menton” declared themselves on 300 hectares, details Patrice Lebouchard, deputy departmental director at the SDIS of the Alpes-Maritimes, interviewed by “here azur”Saturday March 8.
For the moment, the lights do not “are not at all finished”assures the assistant director to the SDIS. Only a fire is fixed, “The one in the town of Fontan which had traveled 25 hectares”assures Colonel Patrice Lebouchard, who specifies: “We are now hopeful of treating it faster than the others who are still underway.” Two other places are traveled by the flames. One in the town of Sospel, which spreads on 70 hectares, and that of Breil-sur-Roya, which “covers almost 200 hectares “specifies the deputy departmental director of SDIS.
The patch of the steep valley “Do not allow you to access it with our vehicles”. The firefighters are helicopter and “Go near the fires”. A geographical location that did not allow firefighters to work on previous nights. “We have surveillance, because we could not hire firefighters at night, it’s too dangerous”continue Patrice Lebouchard.
The firefighter specifies that 150 fire soldiers are sent today to the fires, as well as forest sappers from the departmental council. “Three Canadair, and our water bombardier helicopter will also be used on Saturday”.
On the cause of fires, it is impossible to know its origin. The criminal track was mentioned yesterday by the mayor of Breil-sur-Roya, Sébastien Olharan, but Colonel Patrice Lebouchard remains cautious. On here azur he assures “That no information in the field allows us to know if it is a crimininel fire”.
