A new fire broke out in Gironde on Monday. At 10:30 pm he had traveled between 400 hectares in Saumos and forced the evacuation of the city of the municipality in a context of intense heat in Gironde.
🔥 #Fires in progress | Municipality of Saumos. Update at 10:30 pm:
➡️ 400 has burned
➡️ Completed the evacuation of the city of Saumos
➡️ D5 cut off from traffic.More than 300 #fire fighters The Girondins mobilized, supported by extra-departmental reinforcements
👉Avoid the area pic.twitter.com/1uJqrjnGZ4
– Prefect of New Aquitaine and Gironde (@ PrefAquitaine33) September 12, 2022
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The department, hit by major fires this summer (nearly 30,000 hectares burned in La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras), experienced very high temperatures on Monday, with notably a monthly record recorded in Bordeaux (37.5 degrees), never seen in September since 1987.
About 500 inhabitants of the city of Saumos joined the shelters in the neighboring municipalities of Temple, Porge and Sainte-Hélène, according to Codis 33, who described the situation as “quite virulent”.
Canadair, helicopters and Dash
About 340 firefighters are present in Saumos, a village located between the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean and the conurbation of Bordeaux, and they have to work “all night”.
Significant air resources were mobilized before sunset, with two Canadair, two helicopters and a Dash plane.
The Gironde department also indicated in the evening that it was mobilizing its ferries between Royan (Charente-Maritime) and Le Verdon-sur-Mer, at the northern end of the Médoc, to cross the Gironde estuary with reinforcements from the Charente- Maritime. Reinforcements from Lot-et-Garonne are also planned.
Almost 45 hectares burned in Herm
In addition, a fire had been going on since Monday afternoon in the nearby Landes department in Herm, with about 45 hectares burned. This city is located north of Dax, a city where the heat record for the month of September (39 ° C) was also broken on Monday.
A hundred firefighters and aerial resources are mobilized on this fire which, like that of Saumos, is not found in the Landes de Gascogne massif, the largest coniferous forest in Europe according to local authorities.
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