A fire started this Thursday shortly before 2 p.m. in Solérieux, in the Drôme. More than 80 firefighters are mobilized to put out this fire which broke out in a wooded mountainous area. Three canadairs from the southern zone were there around 5 p.m.
A fire broke out this Thursday, August 19, in the Solérieux sector, a neighboring town of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, in the south of Drôme. The alert was given shortly before 2 p.m. due to smoke billowing from a wooded area above Solérieux.
The situation at 7 p.m.: the fire, although less virulent, was not yet fixed. Firefighters reported 4 hectares of vegetation gone up in smoke. Several dozen firefighters were still fighting to put out the fire that broke out in a wooded area made up of resinous. Also note: the end of the intervention for the three canadairs mobilized. No house was threatened by the disaster.
The intervention of the firefighters was made complex by a wind blowing at nearly 40 km / h. Significant resources were gradually deployed on site during the afternoon to bring the disaster under control as quickly as possible. Three groups of firefighters were dispatched to the scene. Around 5 p.m., 84 firefighters, around twenty fire-fighting machines, a water bomber helicopter from Sdis 26 and three canadairs were mobilized.