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The terrible fires are back in Gironde.
Walls of flames have again attacked the region, near the town of Hostens, where a fire has ravaged 6,000 hectares of pine forest since Tuesday afternoon.
More than 500 firefighters are mobilized and 6,000 people have been evacuated.
A portion of the A63 motorway between Bayonne and Bordeaux has been closed.
More than a hundred “restarts of fires have been recorded in Gironde”, announced Martin Guespereau, delegate prefect for defense and security in the south-west zone.
Sixteen homes "have been damaged" and the fires continue to progress.
Read alsoFires in Gironde: at the heart of the blaze, in Hostens, "we no longer control anything"
3,800 people were initially forced to leave their homes yesterday, in the municipalities of Hostens, Saint-Magne and the Belin-Béliet sectors, as well as 2,000 this morning in the town of Belin, to which are added 200 evacuations in the Landes.
“New evacuations are expected today,” continued Martin Guespereau.
What else to remember
A man "threatening in possession of a knife" killed by the police at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
The facts took place at terminal 2F, around 8:30 a.m.
The man in question allegedly first tried to punch one of the officials before trying to attack him with a knife.
The policeman then fired back with his firearm.
“A summons was made but he came forward and a policeman fired.
Only one shot was fired,” reported an AFP photographer present at the scene.
The 32-year-old assailant, born in Fort-de-France (Martinique), was shot in the abdomen and succumbed to his injuries.
The beluga lost in the Seine had to be euthanized.
The cetacean, stuck in the Seine for a week, was able to get out alive from the river, very early this morning, after a rescue operation of at least six hours.
But the health examinations carried out immediately after his extraction - blood test, skin examination and ultrasound, in particular - were not particularly reassuring.
The male, who “had no longer any digestive activity” and who had “no longer been eating” for several days, died.
He was euthanized, announced the prefecture of Calvados, during his transport to Ouistreham.
Elon Musk is selling his Testa shares.
The multibillionaire sold nearly $7 billion worth of shares in the Tesla automotive group, according to a document filed with the SEC, the American stock market policeman, and published on the latter's website on Tuesday.
Is Musk preparing for a defeat in the showdown between him and Twitter?
The American, currently engaged in a legal standoff over the takeover of the social network, sold around 7.9 million Tesla shares between August 5 and 9, according to this gently.
Moscow is preparing to connect
the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to Crimea
.
The plant, the largest in Europe, came under the control of Russian troops on March 4, shortly after the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
Located near the town of Energodar on the Dnieper River, the plant, the largest in Europe, has six of Ukraine's 15 reactors, capable of supplying four million homes.
it concerns you
This Wednesday, the heat wave, in progress in the South-East for several days already, is regaining ground in the South-West with maximum temperatures expected up to 40 degrees locally.
Maximum temperatures will reach "34 to 37°C from Pays de la Loire to Poitou-Charentes, and 36 to 38°C generally in the south-west with local peaks at 39 or 40°C".
🌡️#VaguedeChaleur
What #temperatures for the next three days?
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— Meteo-France (@meteofrance) August 9, 2022
In total, 16 departments are placed on heat wave orange vigilance in the west of the country: Loire-Atlantique, Vendée, Deux-Sèvres, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Dordogne, Gironde, Lot, Lot -et-Garonne, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Landes, Gers, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées and Haute-Garonne.