In the Gard, a vehicle fire spreads to the undergrowth and causes a medium voltage line to break

L’action rapide des pompiers a limité la propagation de l’incendie. Midi Libre – GIACOMO ITALIANO

The fire started from an Enedis vehicle this Friday July 26, early in the afternoon.

The Gard firefighters intervened this Friday, July 26, early in the afternoon around 2:20 p.m. for a fire from an Enedis construction vehicle in the town of Saint-Gilles, in the Gard, which caused a medium-voltage line to break, with the power spreading to nearby vegetation.

100 m2 of brushwood goes up in smoke

The rapid intervention of a group firefighters of the forest fire type, as well as the water bombing helicopter, however, made it possible to limit the fire to the vehicle and 100 m2 of brushwood, despite an intervention made difficult by the presence of the electrical risk.

The circumstances that led the vehicle to catch fire remain, for the moment, unknown. No less than twenty firefighters and six vehicles were deployed to deal with this disaster.