The officials said that the rapid wildfires that were carried out by the storm winds forced Marseille airport to cancel all flights and was wandering in the second largest city in France.
Provence Region-Albus Cuts Design Alert On Tuesday, the residents urged the 16th Marseille circle to stay in their homes, the gates provided and the wasting and hang wet washing around the holes to avoid the risk of inhaling smoke.
The governorate said that the roads should remain clear for emergency services. The Marseille City Hall said that the fire was spreading, adding: “Avoid all external activities and do not prevent the methods of access to emergency. Follow the instructions and alert messages.”
Marseille Airport said that all flights were suspended around midday, shortly after the fire out of the nearby city of Liz Pins-Merrabo. Local media reported that the reason was that it was a vehicle in which the A552 highway caught fire.
The departures were canceled to Brussels, Munich and Napoli, with flights received to nearby airports, including Nice and Nims. Marseille is the second largest regional airport in France, treating nearly 11 million passengers last year.
The Marseille City Hall said 720 firefighters were fighting the fire with 220 emergency vehicles, with the help of helicopters and water canals. About 350 hectares of Earth have been consumed late in the afternoon.
There were no immediate reports on losses, but the mayor of Liz Pins-Nabo said that two residential properties had been evacuated and that firefighters were preparing to fight in approaching fire near the retirement house.
A spokesman for the mayor’s office in the 15th and 16th of Marseille, the closest to the fire, said that the city’s external borders were clearly threatened and covered by thick smoke. The authorities were waiting for the possible evacuation instructions.
“It is very cool-until the end of the world,” Monic Pillard, a resident of Les Pines-Merrabo, told Reuters, adding that many of her neighbors have left.
Another resident, Jacqueline Reefila, said: “Smoke is very amazing, and they are very.”
It is filled with winds of 70 km/h, the smell of the fire can smell in the center of Marseille and the video showed large columns of smoke that rises on the outskirts of the city. Three southern French sections, Bouches-du-rich, VAR and Vauclluse, are alert to the red fire.
Several forests of the area were closed and barbecue and cigarettes were banned near the wooded areas. About 4000 fires begin every year in France, about 90 % due to human activity. Negligence in the wildfire caused a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
About 250 km west of Marseille, the wildfires that started near the city of Narbon were still active on Tuesday after about 2000 hectares of forests were burning, forcing the partial closure on the A9 highway and dozens of evacuation.
“The fire is still not under control. It is a fire that spread very quickly,” said the governor of the Aude department, Christian Bayagate, which is fueled by the winds of 60 km/hour. More than 1,000 firefighters were deployed, five of them were slightly injured.
“We know that we will face the difficult afternoon, with the exhaustion of the firefighters” after work throughout the night, adding that there is still a “great danger to spread.”
In Spain, firefighters in the northeast of the country continued to fight huge fires in the Catalan province of Taragona, which burned more than 3,100 hectares of forests, farm and urban lands, and restricted 18,000 people at home.
Winds of up to 90 km/hour were holding the efforts of about 100 soldiers from the Military Emergency Unit in Spain and 300 regional firefighters to combat fire, which erupted in the municipality on Sunday.
“Although we expected strong winds, we were surprised by its strength,” said David Borrell, head of the regional firefighting department. “We have worked all night in a very unstable and very difficult way
Experts have warned of the high risk of forest fires this year after heavy spring rains into a boom in the growth of vegetation. High temperatures have now made dry and fragile plants: Last month, Andalucían County in Hueva recorded a record number 46 ° C.
On Tuesday, Syria appealed to assistance from the European Union in fighting forest fires, which were a six -day greeting, and was swept from the wide forests. The neighboring Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have already sent fire control teams to help.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Syria said that fires affected about 5,000 people and 60 society, which destroyed 100 km of forests and agricultural lands – more than 3 % of the forest cover in Syria.
The Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management said that rugged terrain, the absence of fire operations, strong winds, and the presence of unintended minerals and ammunition, which makes it difficult to combat fire effectively.
In Greece, the authorities in Athens closed the Acropolis, the most visited site in the city, from 1-5 pm local time with temperatures to 38 degrees Celsius. The rubble on the side of the rock hill that provides a little shade.