It’s 9 o’clock! Let’s take a look at the news:
• #FIRES Several fires broke out yesterday in Gironde, near Landiras. The flames have already ravaged 6,000 hectares of pine forests since yesterday afternoon, the prefecture announced this morning. the “Fire is very virulent and has spread to the Landes department. The municipalities of Hostens, Saint-Magne and sectors of Belin-Béliet have been evacuated”, or about 3,800 people, according to a statement.
• #FIRES About 3,000 campers and residents of two villages in Aveyron had to be evacuated yesterday as a precaution due to a fire which ravaged 700 hectares of vegetation, but which stopped progressing without being brought under control.
• The heat wave regains ground in the southwest with maximum temperatures predicted up to 40 degrees locally. In total, 16 departments are placed in heat wave orange vigilance, from Loire-Atlantique to Hautes-Pyrénées.
• #UKRAINE Thirteen civilians were killed last night in Russian bombings in the Dnipropetrovsk region in central-eastern Ukraine, Governor Valentin Reznichenko announced.
• #BELUGA Released from the Seine after a perilous operation which lasted all night, the beluga was placed in the back of a truck which took the road to Ouistreham at dawn, the next stage of the race against time to save this cetacean in the state of health “alarming”.