It is 3:45 p.m. this Friday when a fire breaks out in Hostens (Gironde).
On the side of the road, the flames, initially timid, begin to climb along the dry vegetation.
A French fire truck, back at the base, will take a few minutes to put out this peat fire.
On the other side of the departmental road, in the Rouquet and Le Frayot districts, it is Romanian colleagues who are securing a home while the ground is exhaling fatal smoke from all sides.
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