A thick plume of black smoke, flames twenty meters high, exhausted firefighters and panicked residents, watering can in hand to try to save their house.
Even today, the Southwest remains traumatized by the summer of 2022 during which 32,000 hectares of forests had burned in the Landes de Gascogne massif.
A sad record.
This dramatic episode, which had caused consternation throughout France, brought to light the impotence of firefighters to protect the first French forest region (2.8 million hectares of wooded area).
To explain this failure, some insisted on the inability to move in these forests, 90% private, while others pointed to a glaring lack of human and material resources to control the "
octopus"
described by the firefighters, these fires beaten by strong winds blowing in all directions.
Eight months later, fumaroles still escape in places.
The landscape is devastated.
Maritime pines, there are only…
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