At the height of the intervention, this fire mobilized two Canadair, a Dash plane, nearly 170 firefighters and a dozen gendarmes.
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TGV and TER train traffic south of Bordeaux (Gironde) resumed on Wednesday August 3, announced the SNCF and the prefecture. The circulation of seven trains on the Bordeaux-Hendaye and Bordeaux-Dax-Tarbes lines was interrupted Tuesday around 3:30 p.m., after a fire near the tracks in the town of Laluque, about twenty kilometers north of Dax.
According to SNCF, traffic has “gradually resumed” since the beginning of the morning, with delays expected at the departure at the station, and should return to normal “before the end of the morning”.
The fire, which destroyed 32 ha of pines, was fixed overnight. At the height of the intervention, this fire mobilized two Canadair, a Dash plane, nearly 170 firefighters and a dozen gendarmes, added the prefecture.
The Landes department went into red vigilance on Wednesday (level 4 out of 5) for the risk of forest fires, as did the two other departments hosting the Landes de Gascogne forest, neighboring Lot-et-Garonne and Gironde, classified red since Monday.
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