Firefighters had to control several fires during the night from Sunday to Monday. These fires are not isolated. 79 disasters were reported in Koné and Pouembo for the month of October, according to Sylvio Loquet, who commands the emergency center.
Palm trees charred, the ground blackened, Koné was hit by flames on the night of October 13 to 14. The fires would be “volunteers“, according to the municipal firefighters. They intervened on numerous fire outbreaks from 9 p.m. until five a.m. In the morning, the flames were getting dangerously close to the houses. Of the “Gusts at 50 km/h were 30 meters from the Cigales housing estate“, according to Commander Sylvio Loquet. “A sheet metal warehouse” as well as “two electric poles burned.
In support of the Koné firefighters, there were civil security teams, the town hall technical service which provided a firewall, police officers, rural guards as well as the water bomber helicopter. This carried out more than 50 drops, from the foot of the Koniambo massif to the Cigales district. The fire, which was “fixed”, was not yet extinguished at the end of the day at the Tiombola watercourse. Seven hectares were ravaged by the flames.
Another outbreak of fire was brought under control, it grew to the fences of homes in Green acre, located near the Teari shopping center. Finally, three fires affected the Baco tribe, “with two homes threatened”. Among these departures, “two were fixed”. The third, “half” mastered, is “in free evolution” more “does not threaten homes”. The firefighters did not “not had access”. However, “two other lights“threatened”the Païamboué housing estate”.
Commander Loquet has recorded 79 fires in Koné and Pouembo since the start of the month. At the end of the day, “two fire vehicles” came “to commit to the 80th”according to the fire chief. “Every day, many fires break out”, he said, hoping “a better day”.
In September, more than a hundred interventions were recorded by the Northern province. As a reminder, on Friday October 11, around ten hectares burned in Koumacnear the Tougoupe housing estate. In September, the commune of Poum was also engulfed in flames for three weeks. More than a thousand hectares of vegetation were reduced to ashes.
