The wind is still blowing strong this Thursday. Haute-Corse is on yellow alert. Corsica-du-Sud will pass there from 5 p.m. Then the entire island will return to orange vigilance from 11 p.m. until at least 9 a.m. this Friday, November 22, Météo France announces.
Corsica is once again on orange wind alert this Friday. According to Météo France, the gusts should reach “up to 150 km/h on the Balagne coast and the north of Cap Corse, 100 to 120 km/h by surge on Conca and Porto-Vecchio, 90 to 100 km/h in the Basti region. Southern Corsica is also in yellow alert for wave-submersion and rain-flood phenomena. Upper Corsica is on yellow rain-flood and flood alert.
Rose Paolacci
Over the past 24 hours, during the previous episode of orange vigilance, firefighters have intervened on numerous occasions. Around thirty interventions took place in Corsica-du-Sud, including around ten for fire outbreaks due to burn-out. Sis 2A calls for extreme cautionespecially since they are prohibited.
In Haute-Corse, firefighters carried out around forty interventions, including one for a roof torn off in the city center of Bastia. But also a major fire, now under control, in Pietra di Verde, which destroyed 22 hectares of vegetation.
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