Fires in 2022: has the Haute-Garonne department been more affected than in the past?
By Quentin Marais
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Very many heat waves, a drought intense and… fires shovel. This is what the year 2022 is very often reserved for since the end of spring in France. While sectors have been particularly affected by the flames, what happened in Haute-Garonne? Firefighters respond to Toulouse News.
Twice as many interventions as in 2021
860. It was the number of interventions adapted on fires by the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service of Haute-Garonne, since the beginning of the year, according to the data it had communicated to Toulouse News at the beginning of autumn.
This includes stubble or crop fires, forest or wood fires, plant fires in the mountains, and finally grass or brush fires. Interventions for fire recognition in the mountains are also counted.
860 is almost double compared to 2021 (493), and already more than for the whole of 2020 (856), in their entirety.
- Thatch fires: 86 in 202231 in 2021, 83 in 2020
- Forest fires : 26 in 2022, 11 in 2021, 21 in 2020
- Vegetation fires in the mountains: 6 in 20224 in 2021, 6 in 2020
- Grass or brush fires: 738 in 2022442 in 2021, 743 in 2020
Reinforcement against mega fires
But for this summer, the firefighters of Haute-Garonne explain that the activity was mainly concentrated on “our participation to columns of extra-departmental forest fire reinforcements21 in 2022, which is increasing sharply”.
The firefighters of 31 went to lend a hand in Gironde, where the lights of Landiras and Teste de Buch have done enormous damage, but also on the Mediterranean basinwith other firefighters from all over Occitania.
“Climate Soldiers”
The Haute-Garonne SDIS also insists on an appellation, that of “climate soldier”. An appointment that takes on a little more momentum when we look to tomorrow, and the summers that will follow. “This year has undoubtedly been a year of awareness for the population but also for the elected officials ”, note the relief.
“Firefighters, historically ‘soldiers of fire’, today also ‘soldiers of life’, are now becoming real ‘climate soldiers explains the SDIS, which says it is “strongly impacted by the evolution of climatic hazards which will go crescendo with the global warming In progress. »
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