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Gironde. La Teste-de-Buch fireplace declared “extinguished”

The La Teste hearth broke out on 12 July around the Pilat dune and had forced hundreds of folks out of their homes. Declared fixed 23 July then “under manage” July 29th, is regarded as this Thursday August 25th turned off according to the prefecture of Gironde.

The prefecture welcomed Thursday the mobilization of the fireplace brigade and of all the actors included in the fight against fires and in the checking of catastrophe regions.

This fireplace was declared on the exact working day as the one particular in Landiras, in southern Gironde, which burned approximately 13,000 hectares of forest in July. in advance of struggling a violent resumption of fires in August (Landiras-2), with an further 7,400 hectares eaten. It has not still been declared “learn”.

Entry to harmed forests has been partially reopened

In this space of ​​Landiras, the effectiveness of the flooding operations carried out for several times produced it possible to extinguish the outbreaks in an place extending from the east of the departmental roadways D219 and D115, to the municipality of Landiras. Much more than 300 workers continue being mobilizedthe prefecture writes.

It also announced the lifting from Friday of the ban on access to the impacted forests, with the exception of 4 municipalities (Belin-Beliet, Saint-Magne, Hostens and Louchats) in which this ban is taken care of.

On the other hand, the office continues to be on orange alert for the chance of forest fires, having into account the meteorological situations and the drought condition of the massif.

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