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Major reporting, guests and European news are featured in this news magazine presented by Eléonore Gay and broadcast late Thursday evenings on France 2, as well as Sundays at 10.40 a.m. on France 3.
On the fire front, Europe expects a high-risk summer of 2023. In France, because of the drought, even if the South is the most exposed, it is no longer a region that can be spared. What anticipation and what means do we give ourselves to face the fire? For this new issue of “We Europeans” (Twitter), heading to Portugal.
Portugal tries to anticipate the threat
> THE GREAT REPORT
“It’s dangerous, I did not expect such a situation“, exclaims Rui Tukayana, Portuguese journalist filming himself at the wheel of his car going through a tunnel of flames, in the intense heat of this violent fire of July 2022. In Portugal, in 2017, 117 people perished in forest fires A shock for the population and the Portuguese government, now mobilized in the fight against this scourge “We, the Europeans” followed the Portuguese fire chief in an evacuation exercise of one of the 2,000 high-risk villages. In addition to prevention, Lisbon has implemented a series of measures to anticipate the threat, such as the clearing of particularly flammable areas, but the number one objective is the reduction of eucalyptus forests, a tree that catches fire easily and whose sparks propagate for several kilometres. But this is not to the taste of the paper manufacturers, who have made it their raw material…
A report by Juliette Guérin and Neal Mc Ennis for France.tv press.
> THE GUEST
Eléonore Gay questions John Paul Boslandfirefighter since the age of 14, now lieutenant-colonel and president of the National Federation of Firefighters of France.
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