The end of a fierce fight against the flames. Firefighters managed to repair the fire that broke out in Saumos, Gironde on Thursday, announced the sub-prefect of Lesparre-Médoc, Fabrice Thibier. The fire area has been “re-evaluated”. “We are at 3,400 hectares of burnt, we are on a stabilized fire, which remains within the limits that are those we know from yesterday, which allows us to declare it fixed”, added the sub-prefect during a press conference.
The prefecture previously announced on Thursday that 3,720 hectares had gone up in smoke. In the previous report he also considered it premature to allow the 1,840 evacuated people to return to their homes in the municipalities of Saumos and Saint-Hélène, in the southern Médoc between the seaside resort of Lacanau, on the Atlantic coast, and the conurbation of Bordeaux.
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After progressing strongly for 36 hours, the fire slowed its course since Wednesday and did not progress overnight, during which weather conditions were “favorable” for the firefighters, according to Lieutenant Colonel Éric Pitault, an officer of the communications in Gironde.
A thousand firefighters remain mobilized, as well as volunteers from the Forest Fire Defense (DFCI). Significant air assets were deployed (six Canadair, three Dash planes and two bomber helicopters).
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Fire in the Basque Country
This disaster is the quarter of magnitude in Gironde this summer. Nearly 30,000 hectares had already burned since July during three gigantic fires, twice in La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras, against a backdrop of historic drought.
Another fire, in the south of the region in the Basque Country, burned about fifteen hectares on the border massif of La Rhune, mobilizing about forty firefighters, a Spanish helicopter, three Canadair and two Dash arrived as reinforcements. . Wednesday evening, around 11pm, the fire was under control according to the prefecture of the Atlantic Pyrenees.
400 hectares burned in the Charente
In the Charente, several still active outbreaks have devastated pine and deciduous forests in three municipalities located thirty kilometers south of Angoulême, mobilizing four Canadair, three Dash and two helicopters and nearly 580 firefighters, the prefecture said. in a statement Thursday evening.
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In the area, the authorities recorded a total of 16 fires during the day, as reported by the newspaper Free Charente described at this stage as “the largest fire that the Charente has ever known in its history”.
