Deux morts et des centaines dhectares partis en fumée
Deux morts et des centaines dhectares partis en fumée
26 July 2017
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Algeria – De nouveaux incendies de grandes ampleurs ont encore touché la wilaya de Tizi-Ouzou ces trois derniers jours. Le dernier chiffre communiqué par la Protection civile est de 38 départs de feux, dont dix menaçants, qui sajoutent donc à la soixantaine déjà enregistrés durant la semaine allant du 11 au 17 juillet. Le plus important de ces derniers incendies a été enregistré dans la localité de Mekla, au village Mahmoud. Ceci, pendant que dautres feux sont déclarés dans les régions dAzazga, Bouzeguène, Ifigha, Makouda, Aïn Zaouïa et Aït Aggacha, qui étaient cependant moins importants. Au village Mahmoud, pour contenir le feu, il a fallu lintervention des renforts de Boumerdès et dEl-Hamiz. À ce niveau, la similitude a été relevée avec le feu du début du mois à Aït Yahia Moussa. Sauf que dans ce dernier sinistre et contrairement à celui du village Mahmoud, il ny a pas eu de victimes. Selon le directeur de la Protection civile de la wilaya, le colonel Brahim Mohamadi, la victime dAït Yahia Moussa, âgée de 74 ans et non pas de 64 ans tel que ça nous a été rapporté au départ, nest pas la seule à déplorer cette saison dans la wilaya. Il explique, en effet, quil y a eu déjà un autre mort. Il sagit, selon notre interlocuteur, dun vieil homme qui a mis feu à un amas de broussailles avant de sévanouir et tomber dans les flammes qui lont calciné sans que personne ne sen aperçoive. Revenant sur le sinistre davant-hier à Mekla, la Protection civile a établi un bilan de 180 hectares de forêts, 120 h de broussailles et 6 000 arbres fruitiers partis en fumée. Comparé au bilan des dix dernières années, celui du mois en cours, arrêté au 17 juillet, relève la réelle ampleur de ce dernier. En effet, en matière darbres fruitiers brulés à titre dexemple, pour le total des dix dernières années, 223 115 arbres ont été brulés alors que durant les derniers incendies de ce mois, le chiffre est de 58 824. Comparé à lannée dernière, durant la même période, la superficie de végétation parcourue par les flammes était de 431.5 hectares, pour 1 712 cette année. Lannée passée, le nombre darbres fruitiers calcinés était de 3 269 contre plus de 58 000 cette année.
English version of the news. Note: the news has been translated by Google translator.
Two dead and hundreds of hectares gone in smoke
New large-scale fires have still affected the wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou in the last three days. The latest figure reported by the Civil Protection Department is 38 fire starts, of which 10 were threatening, adding to 60 people already registered during the week from 11 to 17 July. The most important of these fires was recorded in the locality of Mekla, in the village Mahmoud. This, while other fires are declared in the regions of Azazga, Bouzeguene, Ifigha, Makouda, Ain Zaouia and Ait Aggacha, which were however less important. In Mahmoud village, to contain the fire, it took the intervention of the reinforcements of Boumerdes and El-Hamiz. At this level, the similarity was noted with the fire of the beginning of the month to Aït Yahia Moussa. Except that in this last disaster and unlike that of the village Mahmoud, there were no casualties. According to the Director of Civil Protection of the wilaya, Colonel Brahim Mohamadi, the victim of Aït Yahia Moussa, 74 years old and not 64, as reported to us at the outset, is not the only one To deplore this season in the wilaya. He explains, in fact, that there was already another dead man. It is, according to our interlocutor, an old man who set fire to a heap of brush before fainting and falling into the flames that have calcined it without anyone noticing. Returning to the disaster of the day before yesterday in Mekla, the Civil Protection established a balance of 180 hectares of forests, 120 hours of scrub and 6 000 fruit trees in smoke. Compared to the balance sheet of the last ten years, that of the current month, stopped July 17, highlights the real magnitude of the latter. In the case of fruit trees burnt as an example, for the total of the last ten years, 223,115 trees were burnt, whereas during the last fires of that month the figure is 58,824. Last year, during the same period, the area of vegetation covered by the flames was 431.5 hectares, for 1,712 this year. Last year, the number of fruit trees burned was 3,269, compared to more than 58,000 this year.
Portugal is to reduce the number of eucalyptus groves after the highly flammable plant was blamed for last month’s deadly forest fires.
Parliament voted for the measure Wednesday as part of ongoing forest law reforms that started in April, before the blaze in the central Pedrogao Grande region that killed 64 people and injured more than 250.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa last week urged measures to prevent a repeat catastrophe, while also highlighting the challenges of forest redevelopment.
“We can’t refuse to curb the growth of eucalyptus because we’re worried about its impact on the paper industry,” he said last week, referring to a sector that represents 4.9 percent of Portuguese exports.
Eucalyptus is Portugal’s most widespread forest plant, according to the country’s Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests.
But it is cited as a cause offorest fires that lay waste annually to around 100,000 hectares of vegetation.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-eucalyptus-deadly-portugal-forest.html#jCpPortugal is to reduce the number of eucalyptus groves after the highly flammable plant was blamed for last month’s deadly forest fires.
Parliament voted for the measure Wednesday as part of ongoing forest law reforms that started in April, before the blaze in the central Pedrogao Grande region that killed 64 people and injured more than 250.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa last week urged measures to prevent a repeat catastrophe, while also highlighting the challenges of forest redevelopment.
“We can’t refuse to curb the growth of eucalyptus because we’re worried about its impact on the paper industry,” he said last week, referring to a sector that represents 4.9 percent of Portuguese exports.
Eucalyptus is Portugal’s most widespread forest plant, according to the country’s Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests.
But it is cited as a cause offorest fires that lay waste annually to around 100,000 hectares of vegetation.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-eucalyptus-deadly-portugal-forest.html#jCpPortugal is to reduce the number of eucalyptus groves after the highly flammable plant was blamed for last month’s deadly forest fires.
Parliament voted for the measure Wednesday as part of ongoing forest law reforms that started in April, before the blaze in the central Pedrogao Grande region that killed 64 people and injured more than 250.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa last week urged measures to prevent a repeat catastrophe, while also highlighting the challenges of forest redevelopment.
“We can’t refuse to curb the growth of eucalyptus because we’re worried about its impact on the paper industry,” he said last week, referring to a sector that represents 4.9 percent of Portuguese exports.
Eucalyptus is Portugal’s most widespread forest plant, according to the country’s Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests.
But it is cited as a cause offorest fires that lay waste annually to around 100,000 hectares of vegetation.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-eucalyptus-deadly-portugal-forest.html#jCpPortugal is to reduce the number of eucalyptus groves after the highly flammable plant was blamed for last month’s deadly forest fires.
Parliament voted for the measure Wednesday as part of ongoing forest law reforms that started in April, before the blaze in the central Pedrogao Grande region that killed 64 people and injured more than 250.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa last week urged measures to prevent a repeat catastrophe, while also highlighting the challenges of forest redevelopment.
“We can’t refuse to curb the growth of eucalyptus because we’re worried about its impact on the paper industry,” he said last week, referring to a sector that represents 4.9 percent of Portuguese exports.
Eucalyptus is Portugal’s most widespread forest plant, according to the country’s Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests.
But it is cited as a cause offorest fires that lay waste annually to around 100,000 hectares of vegetation.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-eucalyptus-deadly-portugal-forest.html#jCp
