Black, gray, brown.
These are the new dominant colors in the south of the Gironde.
In the Landiras sector, where there used to be greenery and a pine forest, today there are only charred trunks, piles of cut wood and sadly empty spaces.
Six months just after the start of the "fire of the century", which ravaged 13,800 ha from July 12 to 25 and required the evacuation of 16,000 people, before a second outbreak of fire from August 9 to 14, between Saint-Magne and the Landes (7,400 ha devastated, 10,000 evacuations)
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the felling of pines constitutes a new trauma for the inhabitants of the sector.
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