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Fire in Font forest

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http://m.leparisien.fr/noisy-sur-ecole-77123/des-incendies-dans-le-massif-d...

Roughly translated.

Several fires broke out Friday afternoon in the forest of Fontainebleau , particularly in the massive Three Gables . The first , quite violent occurred near the village of Noisy- sur-Ecole , in an emblematic place of the massif, the Sands of Cul du Chien, to 16 hours in a steep area and therefore difficult to access for firefighters . The mastery of fire has also required the presence of a helicopter, to establish a monitoring the progress of the fire. In all, there are 5,000 m2 of pine trees and scrub were destroyed . Another fire occurred at 17 o'clock on the hill called the Potala , a much frequented by rock climbers sector. In all, there are about fifty firefighters were mobilised.

Not sure what that means for the climbing areas...
 Adrien 11 Jul 2015
In reply to sam.sam.sam.ferguson:

As far as I know there are no particular climbing restrictions. Do be careful though, especially since we're getting strong winds at the moment. A decree was passed last week to ban smoking in the entire forest (including when driving) since it has only rained once in the last two weeks, soon we'll have to start praying for rain... These are not the first fires though, there was one in Videlles and one in Bois rond in April-May.

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