“
Twenty minutes ago it was fine.
And now it's going harder, ”
says François Pradon, the chief of staff of the southern zone of defense and security.
From Marseille where he is, he participates, this Thursday afternoon, in a videoconference organized at the Ministry of the Interior on the fires in progress in his sector: the Mediterranean rim.
Facing the giant screen which lights up at 4.30 p.m. and where he appears in the command room, the prefect Alain Thirion, director general of Civil Security, took his place to take stock of the situation this afternoon.
A day that everyone predicted was difficult due to weather conducive to flames, with strong gusts of wind.
But they did not think that everything was going to get worse an hour later with a major fire breaking out in the Cévennes, a fire that the firefighters were still trying to control on Friday.
This is the first time the fire season has started so early - mid-June instead of early July
Colonel Arnaud Wilm, the head of Cogic
Located on the third floor of the ministry, these rooms filled with computers and sleeping bags, stuck in…
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