In the coming months, you will see more and more water tanks along the roads of Loiret. This will be enough to supply about fifteen fire trucks to fight fires. The professionals have been eagerly waiting for this system.
The first of these tanks was inaugurated this Friday in Gien. There will be 28 tanks like this one. Their deployment will be completed within two years. Each of these tanks contains 60,000 liters of water. Â
Fire trucks only have 4,000 liters, which doesn’t last very long. At some point, they need to be able to fetch water. And the closer the water is to the forest and the fire, the better the attack.
Lt. Colonel Bruno Poix – SDIS Loiret
The tanks will be installed near roads and in the most sensitive areas, on the edge of the Orléans forest where water points are scarce. Other tanks will be placed near peri-urban areas. “They will serve as a buffer between housing and forests to limit the consequences and the development of the disaster,” explains Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Flamant of SDIS 45.
Just under 2 million euros, that’s the cost of the entire system. The State finances a quarter of it. The rest is covered by the Loiret department: “We need to anticipate, prepare for an exceptional climatic event. This is what could await us in a few decades,” says Marc Gaudet, the UDI president of the department. “A devastating fire in the Orléans forest would be tragic.”
Improved bush clearing and the deployment of fire detection cameras in Sologne are also planned to protect the forests from flames.
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