More than 130 tourists from a campsite in Saint-Cyprien as well as residents of neighboring housing estates were evacuated. 150 firefighters and a Dash plane were mobilized to fight this fire that threatened the campsite and about fifty homes.
A mobile home and a house were partially damaged by the flames, fanned by a strong wind and a strong drought. Drastic restrictions on water use came into effect on Wednesday nearly a month after this year's first major fire in France, when flames swept a thousand hectares and crossed the Spanish border.