2023-08-10 23:09:36
About 360 sheep were killed this Thursday in the fire of a sheepfold in a village in the Gard, where a hundred firefighters were mobilized with a helicopter to extinguish the flames which had spread to the vegetation, a-t- we learned from the Gard firefighters.
“The owner of the premises, a man in his 40s who was slightly injured in the leg, was evacuated” to a hospital, the firefighters explained in a press release. This sheepfold fire occurred in the town of Blandas, north of Montpellier.
Forty survivors
“Unfortunately only about forty ewes were able to get out of the agricultural building in time, which is completely destroyed,” they said, indicating that the sheepfold contained “initially about 400 ewes”.
In the height of the summer season, which is conducive to fires in this Mediterranean region, “the massive and rapid commitment of around a hundred firefighters, 25 vehicles and a water bomber helicopter made it possible to quickly contain the vegetation fire which remains limited to around 5 ha despite the severe drought,” the firefighters said.
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