Fontainebleau fires stabilize with reduced firefighter numbers

The situation is stabilizing in the Fontainebleau forest, allowing a reduction in deployed resources.

On Sunday, around 500 firefighters will be mobilized on the ground, down from 850 to 1,000 at the end of the week. Aerial resources will no longer be engaged.

Commandant Sylvain Wdowil stated that the overall deployment is beginning to be scaled back. On Saturday, 650 firefighters handled several reactivations of hot spots.

The fires, which started on Sunday and Monday, burned approximately 2,200 hectares. A section of the A6 remained closed until Thursday evening.

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Firefighters and police at the Fontainebleau forest fire scene with detained suspects
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Fontainebleau forest fire contained, six suspects detained

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Tuesday evening, the Seine-et-Marne prefect announced the two fires ravaging the Fontainebleau forest were contained after burning more than 2,000 hectares. Six people were detained, including a volunteer firefighter suspected of deliberately starting a blaze.

An exceptional fire has been raging since Sunday in the Fontainebleau forest in Seine-et-Marne. More than 500 firefighters are battling flames that burned 1,300 hectares by Monday evening.

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An exceptional wildfire is ravaging the western part of the Fontainebleau forest in Seine-et-Marne. Some 800 hectares were burned by flames on Sunday evening. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez will travel to the site on Monday morning.

Emmanuel Macron asked the armed forces for maximum support to civil security amid wildfires in the southwest. Over 110,000 evacuations have been ordered and 14,000 hectares have burned in Gironde.

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France will quickly receive European aerial reinforcements to fight wildfires, Emmanuel Macron announced overnight from Thursday to Friday.

A forest fire declared at 13:15 in the area of Villanueva de los Castillejos in Huelva has been raised to emergency phase 1 of the Infoca Plan.

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Paris police prefecture announced on Saturday the deployment of 4800 police officers and gendarmes plus 2500 firefighters for the Fête de la musique on Sunday. Alcohol consumption bans and restrictions on undeclared gatherings along the Seine quays have been imposed due to the heatwave. The event is also drawing growing numbers of European visitors.

 

 

 

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