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In Gironde, the hours remain critical, Monday July 18. Rekindled by the wind and the extreme heat, the fires regained vigor on the 7th day. More than 14,000 hectares of pine forests have burned, including 9,000 in the Landuras massif.
Fight fire with fire. Sunday evening July 17, the firefighters are on the job, they voluntarily set part of the vegetation on fire. If the fire gets this far, the flames will have nothing left to burn and will be contained. Firefighters from the south-east of France are specialized in these tactical fires. But in the face of these two extraordinary fires, concern can be read on all faces.
Because since Sunday, the situation is extremely worrying. On the front of the two Gironde fires, the fire seems out of control, approaching the beaches dangerously in places, and the next few hours could be critical. “Around 3-4 p.m., it becomes a powder keg and the fire literally explodes”, describes general controller Marc Vermeulen, commander of the departmental fire and rescue service. The Gironde deplores 22 fire starts per day. The inhabitants engage in preventive actions, but they watch, in despair, as their lands are burned.
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