Slow traffic on the Paris-Bordeaux line.
Forest fires in Charente-Maritime disrupted train traffic between the two destinations this Sunday evening, according to the SNCF, which expects a return to normal by the end of the evening.
The trains were "up to thirty minutes" late.
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The #clérac fire is under control.
Commitment of 100 firefighters
Thanks to reinforcements @pompiers24
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Civil security aircraft @dgscgc @AJouassard
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According to the SNCF penalty, "the TGVs were diverted on the classic line between Angoulême and Bordeaux" after the precautionary cut of a high-voltage line which supplied the high-speed line (LGV) threatened by these forest fires in Charente Maritime.
Thirty hectares burned
Two forest fires burned around thirty hectares of coniferous trees on Sunday afternoon in the town of Clérac, 60 km north of Bordeaux, according to the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service of Charente-Maritime (Sdis 17) .
The intervention of a hundred firefighters and a water bomber plane "made it possible to control the two homes", which will remain under surveillance overnight from Sunday to Monday.
