Poorly controlled bark: two brush fires in less than 24 hours in Ardèche

On Tuesday, 8 April, nearly nine hectares of vegetation left in smoke in the commune of Loubaresse, in the south of the Ardèche. In question, a poorly controlled eco-buoy. The day before, further east of the department, the firefighters came to the end of another sinister which destroyed 25 hectares of brushwood.

Forest and structural firefighters of Lajas and Boquerón controlled this morning a grassland fire that consumed about 60 ropes near the PR-116 road in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Lajas. The fire was reported at 6:40 p.m. on Sunday and its extinction was complicated by the lack of access to irrigation canals in the area. Among the nearby communities is: El Corillo, Maguayo, Olivares and Hacienda de Borinquen. At the moment the cause o…

The authorities attend to an intense forest fire that took place this Sunday on the PR-116 road near a garage in Lajas. The director of OMME Lajas, Víctor Pacheco recommended that citizens with respiratory problems look for a safe place, mainly residents of highway 305, which includes the neighborhoods Maguayo, Olivares and Hacienda de Borinquén. Access to the fire is quite complicated, he told Telenoticias.