The night was relatively calm in the Landes noted the firefighters this Tuesday morning, despite a large device put in place to deal with the floods. The red vigilance was lifted during the night, lowered to the orange level with floods for the departments of Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the recession that began at Peyrehorade should be confirmed during the day. This Tuesday morning, a hundred homes are still blocked by cut roads.
“A relatively calm night”, these are the words this Tuesday morning of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Desbieys, in charge of operations in the Peyrehorade sector, on France Bleu Gascogne. “The inhabitants followed the instructions well and stayed at home”, greet the firefighter, who reports few interventions in the night from Monday to Tuesday. However, an important device remained on alert all night with around forty firefighters and around thirty gendarmes in the Peyrehorade sector.
The only significant intervention, the evacuation of drifting gas bottles in the town of Peyrehorade. A not dangerous but technical operation which required the deployment of specialized firefighters. The bottles were located in a cellar which was flooded, they could be recovered.
The recession announced for the day
This Tuesday around 8 a.m., the level of the combined Gaves was stabilized at 5.08 meters at Peyrehorade. The flood peak occurred in the middle of the night, with a Gave d’Oloron raised to 4.79 meters in Escos. The recession should be confirmed during the day to then give way to cleaning operations and reopening of the closed roads.
This Tuesday morning, a hundred homes were still blocked by cut roads. The firefighters call on the inhabitants to stay at home and to avoid these axes while the water recedes.