Four days after the start of the fires, the forest continues to burn in Gironde. Since Tuesday evening, the flames have been devouring the forests in La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras. Especially since the expected high heat worries the president of the Gironde Departmental Council.
Article written by
Published
Reading time : 1 min.
“The scorching temperature suggests that the conditions will still be unfavorable“, indicates Saturday July 16 on franceinfo Jean-Luc Gleyze, the PS president of the Departmental Council of Gironde. According to him, it is necessary to achieve “to master“the fire of La Teste-de-Buch in order to be able to”then deploy the rest of the troops to Landiras to have more firefighters present” on this site. More 10,000 hectares of forest have gone up in smoke since Tuesdayin the fires of Teste-de-Buch and Landiras, in Gironde.
“This is one of the difficulties of the two lights present at the same time” Jean-Luc Gleyze recalls that the fire of La Teste-de-Buch is “the one that seems to be the most able to be contained, because it is caught in the bottleneck between the coast and Lake Cazaux“. If the fire brigade succeeds, “this would allow to have oxygen and to be able, at that moment, to direct the teams and the troops towards the fire of Landiras“.
The President of the Departmental Council of Gironde also pleads for “a much larger Canadair fleet” than that available today in France. He underlines that these days in Gironde, while there was “up to six Canadair“, some “had to go back to other regions of France“. There is nothing left”.currently only three Canadair“. Jean-Luc Gleyze is in favor of “a national strategy“which foresees more Canadair available,”as well as Dash“. This fleet must be “distributed correctly throughout France, at least in high-risk areas“. He recalls that “the Gascony massif is a risk zone“.”We should have Canadair nearby“, hammers the boss of the Departmental Council.
Jean-Luc Gleyze specifies that a fire, “it must be treated with nascent fire, that is to say when it appears“. When the Canadair “intervene very quickly, we can contain the fires“. According to him, on the fires of recent days in Gironde, the Canadairs “intervened a little late, simply because the time for the procedures to follow, for the authorizations to be given, and for the devices to move, there was too much time spent. Should have acted sooner“.