Fontainebleau forest: another six hectares gone up in smoke

As if the stifling heat of this Saturday was not enough, a fire broke out this afternoon shortly after 4 p.m. in the forest of Fontainebleau, between Achères and Arbonne-la-Forêt, in Noisy-sur-Ecole. Six hectares of woods were burnt. The Seine-et-Marne departmental emergency and fire service (Sdis 77) dispatched 80 firefighters and a dozen trucks to the site. They managed to contain the fire. The departmental road 64 is cut to allow them to deploy their machines. According to the first elements of the Fontainebleau gendarmerie company, the origin of the incident is still unknown.

Curiously, the fire started 50 meters from that which occurred Tuesday, August 4 at 9 p.m. A disaster located in dense vegetation of conifers and rocks over an area of ​​nearly 4,000 m2 with difficult access.

Have residual fumaroles and fires continued to smolder? This possibility exists because even today, the firefighters are busy extinguishing a fire that occurred Friday at the very beginning of the afternoon in the town of Fontainebleau at a place called La Touche aux Mulets.

The fires that occur in the forest of Fontainebleau require time to extinguish all the residual fires and fumaroles and prevent new fires from starting again./Franck Desprez Sdis 77  

At the height of the intervention, more than a hundred firefighters and around fifty devices were mobilized, as well as a water bomber helicopter dropping around 600 liters of water at each rotation. Five hectares of forest burned down in this difficult to access area. Work on wetting and extinguishing residual foci and fumaroles is still continuing.