The fire which started Sunday at the end of the day on the forest commune of Mano (Landes) on the border with the Gironde, covered an area of 300 hectares and “
is no longer progressing
”, announced Monday August 1 the Landes prefecture in its latest report.
The fire is "
still ongoing
" and its perimeter now covers "
an area of approximately 300 ha
", which includes burnt areas and others not, said the prefecture.
At 10:30 p.m. Sunday evening, the flames had burned 150 ha of pines in this sector of the Landes de Gascogne forest.
"
No dwelling
" in the village was affected but the disaster led to the preventive evacuation of about fifteen houses, or about forty people.
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A village evacuated as a precaution
Most of them have been taken in by relatives and "
cannot return to their homes
" for the moment, according to the prefecture.
An important device has been deployed since Sunday at the end of the day to control the fire with the presence of 395 firefighters at the height of the fire, supported by a Dash plane and a helicopter which carried out "
several drops
".
Several roads remain cut off from traffic: the RD 651 in both directions towards Belhade and Hostens as well as the RD 316 in the Mano-Saint-Symphorien direction and the RD 348 in the Mano-Biganos direction.
The prefecture asked to “
avoid the sector
”.
Ten days ago, the village of 130 inhabitants, located a few kilometers from the neighboring Gironde, had to be evacuated as a precaution against the advance of the fire which ravaged the Landiras sector in the south of Gironde.
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The Gironde, scene of two "outstanding" fires
which
devoured nearly 21,000 hectares of forest in 12 days in July in Landiras and La Teste-de-Buch in the Arcachon basin went back to red alert on Monday for forest fires (level 4 out of 5).
The Landes are kept in orange vigilance, that is to say at a "
high
" level of 3 out of 5.