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12:17 p.m. : Carrefour, Orange, EDF and GRDF have taken measures to facilitate the release of their volunteer firefighters, responding to Gérald Darmanin’s call, in order to strengthen the system for fighting exceptional summer fires.
12:00 p.m. : It is noon ! Let’s take a look at the news:
• French firefighters now supported by European reinforcements in Gironde and Landes are continuing their fight against the fire. The toll of the fire is maintained at 7,400 hectares of burned areas since Tuesday. The fire knew no “significant progress” in the night but “vigilance” remains in place, said the prefecture. Follow our live.
•#FIRES A fire that broke out overnight in the Brocéliande forest west of Rennes has already destroyed 230 hectares of vegetation and two Swedish water bombers arrived as reinforcements will help fight it, announced the Morbihan prefecture . In the Jura, two fires have devoured approximately 660 hectares of forest in the south of the department, one “fixed”the other whose progress has been slowed down.
• #INFLATION The rise in consumer prices in France accelerated in July to reach 6.1% over one year, confirmed INSEE in its final estimate.
The US Attorney General claims to have “personally approved” the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Merrick Garland did not disclose the reasons and results of this operation.
11:07 : “The Solidarity Mechanism” of the European Union “makes it possible to respond to the needs of each of the Member States as soon as there is a major disaster”explained on franceinfo Anne-Claire Legendre, spokesperson for the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, while France will receive reinforcements in planes and firefighters from seven countries of the European Union.
(FRANCEINFO / RADIO FRANCE)
10:29 : To fight the fire in #Campénéac, farmers come as reinforcements. They pump water from the town’s pond to bring it closer to the flames. https://t.co/322ah38mfT
10:29 : The gymnasium was requisitioned: 150 inhabitants received the order to evacuate this night. Some were able to be accommodated by relatives, others found refuge here. https://t.co/Wi3HV2oIge
10:28 : The fire which broke out last night in Campénéac in Morbihan, destroyed 230 hectares of vegetation and remains active, said the prefect of the department in a press release. Some 150 people were evacuated as a precaution and are gathered in a hall in the town.
09:40 : This fire in Les Sables-d’Olonne, which destroyed 15 hectares of vegetation and undergrowth as well as an uninhabited shed “required the evacuation of around sixty houses as well as residents of the Moulin de la Salle campsite, who were threatened”, explains the prefecture. No injuries were reported and no homes were destroyed by the fire.
09:40 : Brush fire in the town of Les Sables d’Olonne ➡️ Find the press release on https://t.co/Hk3dzbVk7N https://t.co/5hXz4Dq4tE
09:39 : ?: 1000 people evacuated & welcomed in 1 gymnasium in the heart of the night in Les Sables d’Olonne. 2 words; THANK YOU to the admirable firefighters ?, and to all the services mobilizedJUSTICE and exemplary sanction for the perpetrators of what ? which could have been tragic.⤵️ my press release https://t.co/UBJvNPAFie
09:38 : More than 1,000 people were evacuated from their homes and a campsite last night in Les Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée) because of a brush fire “of human origin”announces the prefecture of the department in a press release.
09:00 : It’s 9 o’clock! Let’s take a look at the news:
• The fires in Gironde did not progress this night, announced during a press point the prefecture of Gironde at 8:30 am. The area burned is still 7,400 hectares of vegetation. However, specified the sub-prefect of Arcachon, “weather conditions invite us to be very vigilant for the day today”. Follow our live.
In Vendée, more than 1,000 people were evacuated from their homes and a campsite overnight because of a brush fire “of human origin”, announced the prefecture. In Brittany, a fire also broke out last night, on the border between Morbihan and Ille-et-Vilaine. And in the Jura, two fires devoured around 660 hectares of forest in the south of the department.
•#UNEMPLOYMENT The unemployment rate is almost stable in the second quarter of 2022 at 7.4% of the active population in France (excluding Mayotte) against 7.3% in the first quarter of the year, according to figures published by INSEE.
•The rise in consumer prices in France accelerated in July to reach 6.1% over one year, confirmed INSEE in its final estimate.
08:52 : In his update, the sub-prefect of Arcachon declares that there is no “no significant progress, that’s the good news of the night”. In total, 7,400 hectares have burned in Gironde since Tuesday. He also specifies that the European reinforcements “will be engaged in the field today”.
08:35 : In Gironde, the authorities continue to carry out “preventive evacuations to allow time for things to be done calmly, in relative serenity”declares Ronan Léaustic, the sub-prefect of Arcachon. “We have no casualties and that’s the most important thing”he adds.
08:29 : “It’s really a race against time. It is better to have cut wood perhaps for nothing than to think that if we had done it we might have avoided it.”
Since Tuesday, nearly 7,400 hectares have gone up in smoke in Gironde. To help firefighters, preventive felling of trees, intended to slow down the advance of the flames, is sometimes carried out. Reportage.
(SEBASTIEN BAER / RADIO FRANCE)
08:12 : A fire broke out last night in Campénéac, on the border between Morbihan and Ille-et-Vilaine, reports France Bleu Armorique, which adds that a first assessment of the firefighters reports 200 hectares gone up in smoke. The origin of the fire remains unknown at this time.
(Radio France – Elsa Vande Wiele)
07:59 : Even the Jura, with its normally more moderate climate, is hit by fires: since Tuesday, two fires have devoured around 660 hectares of forest in the south of the department. Late yesterday afternoon, the progress of one of the fires in the municipalities of Vescles and Cernon could be “slow down” while the other, about twenty kilometers to the south-west, was “fixed”, depending on the prefecture.
(Jean-Philippe KSIAZEK / AFP)
07:12 : The Republican East returns to the visit of the Minister of Health, François Braun, to Meurthe-et-Moselle yesterday, to discuss the situation of a hospital in the region and the lack of city doctors.
07:07 : As for the regional dailies, The Parisian and Free Charente headline the support of several European countries for French firefighters.
06:26 : In the area of the worst French forest fire at the moment, near Landiras, in Gironde, it should still be 37°C today, after 41°C yesterday, where 1,100 firefighters are fighting day and night. To support them, 361 European firefighters – German, Polish, Austrian or Romanian – as well as Italian, Greek and Swedish Canadair took to the south-west on Thursday.
(Laurent Perpigna Iban / Hans Lucas via AFP)
07:35 : Let’s take a look at the news:
• A taste of 2050: the third heat wave of the year in France reaches its peak today with between 38 and 41°C in the country, a heat that is exhausting the hundreds of French and now European firefighters engaged in the east west on multiple fires.
• In a wide area around Hostens (Gironde), the chaotic fire has ravaged 7,400 hectares of parched forests for two days now and forced 10,000 people to leave their homes, sometimes for the second time in a month. In the Jura, where two forest fires have devoured around 660 hectares since Tuesday, the progression of one of the fires could be “slow down” while the other is “fixed”according to the prefecture.
• The site of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, the largest in Europe, was bombed again yesterday, Ukraine and Russia blaming each other, while the head of the International Energy Agency atomic asked for access “as fast as possible” during an emergency meeting of the Security Council.
• After René Goscinny, the Little Nicholas loses his second dad: the French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, also known for his humorous press cartoons, died at the age of 89.