A taste of the end of the world.
After several tens of thousands of hectares of forests and moors burned in the West of France in July, the consequences appear in broad daylight: ravaged nature, animals killed, marked populations, lost businesses...
In the space of two weeks, several fires broke out, particularly in Brittany and Gironde.
Now under control in these areas, the flames give way to a gray and desert landscape.
It took fourteen days of fierce struggle with firefighters deployed by the hundreds, and the help of Canadairs, to manage to fix the blazes.
It is time for the first assessment, that of a post-apocalyptic panorama.
In the areas affected by these vast fires, particularly in Gironde or Brittany, the inhabitants discover, unrecognizable, the transformed landscapes.
The forest fires that have raged in Europe in recent weeks, particularly in the west of the continent hit by heat waves, have already affected more area than during the whole of 2021, according to the European specialized monitoring service, quoted by AFP.