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The fire at Aresin the Arcachon basin, is now contained, Monday September 19, but not yet fixed. The some 300 evacuees still do not have permission to return to their homes.
Continue tirelessly extinguishing the smokers. For the firefighters present in Gironde, he is necessary to fix the fire as soon as possible, Monday September 19th. “There are still a lot of fairly active and really hot smokers, so you have to be very vigilant, especially if the weather becomes unfavorable again, possibly with a picking up wind.“, says Warrant Officer Emmanuel Rosset, from SDIS 74.
The work is almost peaceful next to the fight that the firefighters delivered a few hours earlier to Ares (Gironde). A new wall of flames devastated the forest. Four Csanadair came to support the men on the ground. At the end of a night of struggle, there was no injured but damaged equipment, including a fire truck that was destroyed by fire. “I’m not going to hide from you that the season is long. We can’t wait for the rain“says Mark Vermeulenthe director of SDIS 33. 200 firefighters stay mobilized to Ares.