Question 16557 — security of property and people

Summary

Mr. Thierry Perez questions the Minister of the Interior on the consequences of certain restrictions relating to pyrotechnic shows in rural areas. As part of the prevention of forest and vegetation fires, several prefectures have adopted or strengthened measures limiting the use of fire and fireworks near wooded areas. In Isère, the applicable regulations prohibit in particular, during the summer period, fireworks less than 200 meters from sensitive wooded areas or certain natural areas. If the objective of fire prevention is naturally the subject of a broad consensus, many local elected officials wonder about the concrete consequences of these provisions for rural municipalities. Indeed, in many villages, the immediate proximity of wooded areas makes it materially impossible the organization of traditional pyrotechnic shows, particularly on the occasion of the national holiday of July 14 or municipal festivals, even though these events constitute important moments of social cohesion and local animation. Several elected officials thus believe that the uniform application of a minimum distance of 200 meters leads, in fact, to creating a difference in treatment between rural municipalities and more urbanized, the latter more easily having spaces compatible with regulations. Furthermore, these questions go beyond the sole question of fireworks. They concern more broadly traditional outdoor activities organized in natural spaces, in particular certain youth stays, scout movements or collective receptions of minors, which participate in education about nature and life in community and who must also adapt to increasing constraints linked to fire risk. He therefore asks if the Government plans to initiate a reflection aimed at better taking into account the specificities of rural areas in the application of these regulations, in particular by studying the possibility of supervised exemptions when reinforced security measures are planned, such as the presence of means suitable extinguishing measures, the intervention of qualified professionals, the preventive mobilization of competent services or even a local assessment of the real level of risk at the time of the event. He would also like to know the Government's directions in order to guarantee a fair balance between the imperative of fire prevention, which has become essential in the context of climate change, and the maintenance of demonstrations. popular, cultural and associative which contribute to the vitality of rural communities.

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