The departments of Ariege and Haute Pyrenees have both been affected by numerous fires in wooded areas, with over 900 hectares destroyed. The prefectures have forbidden the traditional practice of "ecobuage", burning fields to rid the land of vegetation, clearing weeds and bushes and providing a form of enrichment to the soil.
Pompiers have warned that with dry vegetation and forecasts of strong winds in the mountains there is a high risk that ecobuages will be uncontrollable.
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