A wildfire, underway for several hours, has already covered 75 hectares Wednesday evening in the south-east of Drôme and still mobilized 200 firefighters around 10 p.m., we learned from them. The fire broke out around 5:00 p.m. in the town of Montguers, in a pine forest and steep terrain in the Baronnies region, which made it more difficult to extinguish, but with no home threatened in the area.
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The fire was still not set for 10:30 p.m., despite 5 drops of flame retardants by Dash planes and 30 water drops by Canadair. "We are still in a phase of fighting against the flames but this time on the ground, we are looking for access to treat the edges which remain in propagation," Commander Nicolas Héritier told AFP, adding that the spread of the However, the fire has "largely diminished thanks to the stopping of the wind and the drop in temperatures in the evening".
About 200 firefighters, however, remain engaged in the field, coming mainly from Drôme, with the help of colleagues from Ardèche, Hautes-Alpes and Vaucluse, according to the same source.