All photos via Le Figaro
THE FIRST WILDFIRE OF THE SEASON took off Saturday evening in the southern region of Rhone, France. The fire traveled through 900 hectares (2,200 acres) before it was brought under control Sunday morning.
During the night the blaze began moving toward the town of d’Ensuès-la-Redonne when winds of 90 kmh (55 mph) whipped the flames up and directed the fire in that direction. A total of 450 firefighters were on the scene and had the fire under control and contained by midday Sunday.
Police have opened a criminal investigation into the fire after learning it was started by a burning auto left in the forest. The car, a Porsche Cayenne had been stolen earlier that morning in Marignane and abandoned. It hasn’t been learned if the car was left because it had caught fire, or whether it was deliberately torched.
L’Express has the STORY.
AFP filed this brief video report from the fire scene:
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