Dry soils and plants, arid air… Global warming exacerbates the risk of fires.
But it is the man who, in the vast majority of cases, starts the fires.
“90% of fires today are of human origin: 70% due to negligence, 30% to a voluntary act”, hammered again on July 15 Éric Brocardi, spokesperson for the fire brigade.
In La Teste-de-Buch, in Gironde, where 7,000 ha went up in smoke, it was a broken down van that caused the fire, while in Landiras, the criminal thesis is favored to explain the outbreak of the fire that burned nearly 13,600 ha.
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