Two big fires have hit the Gironde since Tuesday. So far, nearly 1,400 hectares of forest were burned and more than 6,500 people were evacuated. Listen to France Bleu Gironde to keep you informed.
In the Landiras sector, in the south of the department, around 900 hectares of forest have burned since Tuesday afternoon. Another fire is also underway at Teste-de-Buch in the Arcachon basin and several thousand people have been evacuated to campsites in the town.
The SDIS 17 as reinforcement
Thirty firefighters from Charente-Maritime left to reinforce the device of their Girondin colleagues around 6 p.m. Tuesday evening in the Landiras sector.
Around midnight, another SDIS 17 intervention group – made up of 18 firefighters – took the direction of Charente to help put out a forest fire in the Bardenac sector near Chalais.
The situation in Gironde
- The two ongoing fires in Landiras (south of Gironde) and La Teste-de-Buch (in the Bassin d’Arcachon) are not yet under control
- More than a thousand hectares burned (445 hectares in La Teste-de-Buch and around 900 hectares in Landiras)
- Five to six thousand people were taken care of during the evacuation of five campsites and two motorhome areas in La Teste
- Gironde has been on orange alert to forest fires since Tuesday