Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde
It was August 28, 1989, in the morning.
That day, a fire of rare virulence broke out in the Sainte-Victoire massif, a sudden conflagration, departing from the town of Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, which destroyed 5,000 hectares of vegetation, mostly pines of Aleppo, on the southern side of this mountain painted with love by the Aixois Paul Cézanne.
"The three hundred firefighters could not cope with the force of the blaze, the fire swings could reach five hundred meters."
Thirty-three years later, the mayor of Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde still remembers perfectly.
In three days, the fire ignited the dry vegetation, the flames moved at a
"hallucinating"
speed , recalls Jean Cathala, from the Friends of Sainte Victoire association, this lover of the place saw the flames spread again,
"from peaks in peaks”
.
On the road where he witnesses the burning of Sainte-Victoire, Jean Cathala admits to having been afraid.
A fire as exceptional as...
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