The traffic of TER and TGV trains was interrupted south of Bordeaux on Tuesday due to a fire which broke out in the middle of the afternoon near Dax, in the Landes, we learned from the SNCF. .
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All trains have been interrupted since 3:00 p.m. on the Bordeaux-Hendaye and Bordeaux-Dax-Tarbes lines
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The company was not able at the end of the afternoon to give an estimate on the time of resumption of traffic and invited travelers to postpone their trips on this line.
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At 5:30 p.m., the fire had destroyed 30 hectares of pines and mobilized two Canadair, a Dash plane, nearly 170 firefighters and a dozen gendarmes, according to the Landes prefecture which announced the department's passage into red vigilance (level 4 out of 5) for fire hazard from Wednesday midnight.
Another fire had been set in the morning after having covered 300 hectares since Sunday in the pine forest in the far north of the department, on the border with Gironde, also placed on red alert for the risk of fires.
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