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Firefighters light fires as a precaution for the summer
#HÉRAULT – The Hérault Fire and Rescue Service's Burning Unit carried out a preventive fire on scrubland on the heights of Saint-Jean-de-la-Blaquière this Friday. The town had experienced several fires in recent years, in 2017, 2019 and 2022. The objective of the multidisciplinary team (firefighters, foresters and ONF personnel) was therefore to “clean” the undergrowth to create firebreaks. “We burn in the winter, underlines Captain Jérôme Clarissac. The vegetation will start again but it will be less thick, which slows down the speed of propagation and reduces the intensity of the fires in the summer. » A preventive measure that also allows firefighters to intervene more quickly on fires during the summer period. In Hérault, the Burning Unit brings together around a hundred people and intervenes on 150 to 200 hectares of vegetation between December and mid-March throughout the department.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000A mayor indicted for sexual assault
#PYRÉNÉES-ORIENTALES –Following three complaints filed against him, the mayor of Port-Vendres, Grégory Marty, was indicted for sexual assault on Tuesday, January 14 and placed under judicial supervision, according to L’Indépendant. He was released. In an interview he gave to our colleagues last October, the elected official denied all the accusations. A judicial inquiry had been opened to carry out additional investigations. The three complainants have joined the civil action, according to the public prosecutor. “This is the logical continuation of the procedure,” specifies the lawyer for the mayor of Port-Vendres. The indictment is absolutely not a conviction and opens up rights to Mr. Marty who has complete confidence in the justice system. This is a procedure that will last months, even years, and he hopes more than anything that his presumption of innocence and the secrecy of the investigation will be preserved in this case, by all parties. »
Renovation work for the Cévennes dams
#GARD –The floods of 2002 had shown the need to adapt the two Gardon dams to the next major floods. This will be done in 2025 with the launch of consolidation work on the Sainte-Cécile-d’Andorge and Camboux structures. The project, costing €28.5 million, the first phase of which will begin in June 2025, will ultimately consist of equipping the Sainte-Cécile dam with a spillway. Equipped with an embankment on its downstream section, the structure has a current retention capacity of 14.7 million m3 and can evacuate up to 920 m3 per second. The spillway will double this capacity, thus contributing to better protection of the population of the Alès basin.
Today's figure: 300
#OCCITANIE – On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps, and as part of the Regional Plan to combat racism and anti-Semitism, more than 300 high school students from the Occitanie region (from thirteen different establishments, including two in Gard, three in Hérault, one in Pyrénées-Orientales, and one in Aveyron) and members of the regional youth council, went to Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 January, departing from Toulouse and then from Montpellier, “i.e. twice as many young people as in previous years”, according to the regional authority. According to whom these study trips are part of the “Occitanie, land of resistance” approach undertaken by the Region to bring the history and values of the Resistance to life.
Shellfish farmers satisfied with the end-of-year celebrations
#THAU BASIN – Even if some are showing a 30% drop in turnover, the director of the Mediterranean Regional Shellfish Farming Center (CRCM) draws up a “overall” satisfactory assessment for the end-of-year period when producers make 70% of their sales. Other companies report a 10% increase in their turnover, according to the director of the CRCM, who also emphasizes that no health crisis has disrupted sales at the end of 2024. Another reason for relief is the few cases of theft reported, which is probably linked to the control systems put in place by the police around the oyster farms in the Thau basin.
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