A wildfire started during live-fire drills at the Souippes camp, prompting a large response while officials say the presidential inspection will continue as planned.<\/p>\n
According to the prefecture and the army, the visit has not been canceled; the fire had no impact on Emmanuel Macron\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fire had no impact on Emmanuel Macron\u2019s visit\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 the prefecture and the army<\/p>\n
The blaze occurred the day before at the Suippes military camp in the Marne department. The fire originated from live-fire exercises conducted by troops involved in the training. The fire spread across about 20 hectares of the camp, which is one of the largest military training grounds in France and covers an area of about 13,500 hectares.<\/p>\n
On Thursday morning, the fire had not yet been fully extinguished due to the strong wind, but the prefecture assured that the fire is \u201cmoving slowly,\u201d and the appropriate resources have been mobilized to fight it.<\/p>\n
Context of the events and Orion-26 exercises<\/p>\n
The Orion-26 exercises began in February and are currently in the fourth, final phase. In this phase up to 12,500 troops are involved. The exercises also involve 1,800 tactical vehicles, 30 helicopters and 800 combat drones, and besides France \u2013 troops from Belgium, Italy, Spain, Greece, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are taking part.<\/p>\n
Macron on Thursday is to observe the final phase of these exercises. It is planned that the president, in particular, will fly over the training areas on a Ca\u00efman helicopter and will be present at the \u201clive-fire\u201d stage.<\/p>\n
Organizers say Orion-26 is one of the largest military exercises since the start of the Cold War. Over three months about 12,500 French soldiers and partners from 24 countries will train under a scenario reminiscent of the start of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n
This event demonstrates the scale of coordination and preparation of multinational exercises in the European region amid rising tensions in the international environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildfire started during live-fire drills at the Souippes camp, prompting a large response while officials say the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[242,31754,31755,31753,7937,50,31634,31756],"class_list":{"0":"post-51564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-emmanuel-macron","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-macron-visit","10":"tag-marne-fire","11":"tag-marne-fire-orion-26-macron-visit-souippes-camp-military-exercises","12":"tag-military-exercises","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-orion-26","15":"tag-souippes-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116496272185595772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}