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Bordeaux wakes up in smoke, call not to disturb the firefighters

The explanation is simple: the winds, generally oriented to the southwest for a week and the start of the two fires, turned on Monday evening to take a northerly direction.

The view of smoky Bordeaux at 1:32 from a reader’s balcony in the Grand Parc/Chartrons district.

Johanna vorillon

Too many fire department calls

In a message published early this Tuesday morning on Facebook, the Gironde Departmental Council asks residents not to “call the firefighters for the smoke”: “For a few hours, the smoke from the fires of La Teste and South-Gironde invaded the sky of the metropolis, in particular. Please do not call the fire brigade for this, their standard is saturated. If you are worried about breathing in the particles, put on a mask that you used to protect yourself from Covid. You have to wait for the wind to drop. »

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