the emergency services multiply the interventions

Maximum alert for firefighters in Bordeaux (Gironde), Friday June 17. With 39°C in the shade, the interventions follow one another. In the city center, they take care of a young woman who suffered heatstroke as she left her air-conditioned workplace. “I think that when she got out of work, she was confronted with the high temperature. This is the type of operation that we could be able to encounter given the weather conditions”explains Commander Matthieu Jomain, communication officer of the Sdis de la Gironde.

In one room, firefighters receive 450 emergency calls every day across the department. For the day of Friday June 17, in the center of Bordeaux alone, they intervened 40 times, often for discomfort related to the heat. Doctor Brisset regularly visits his most vulnerable patients. Next night, temperatures are not expected to drop below 24°C.