Many residents were evacuated to the south of Gironde, near Landes, because of the fire that has been going on for ten days in Landiras. As the map below shows, the majority of deserted municipalities are in this sector. “Everything has been deserted since last week“, laments Laurent Lespes, the chef of the restaurant L’auberge du Chêne Pascal located in Belhade, a neighboring village of Mano.
“I am closing because there is no longer a cat, no longer a tourist, nothing! I make three covers while at lunch I turn between 12 and 25 covers“, sighs the one who took over this business just before the Covid, at the beginning of 2020. His only waitress lived on the border between Belhade and Mano, so she was evacuated and he could not replace her. He believes that he may remain closed until the beginning of August maximum“after that it will be really complicated“.
The firefighters didn’t have time to stop but they honked their horns as they passed – Laurent Lespes
As a result, on his restaurant’s Facebook page, he invited the firefighters this Monday and Tuesday to come “to eat and [vous] quench your thirst!“.”The firefighters didn’t have time to stop but they honked their horns passing by but I understand them too“, he notes.