It is less hot but the fire is still burning.
The eastern half of France will still suffer from the heat wave on Tuesday but the Atlantic coast should blow, after a complicated night in Gironde on the front of the two giant fires which have already ravaged 193,000 ha of forest.
Update on the situation.
Still unfavorable weather
Météo France lifted heat wave red vigilance on Tuesday morning in 15 departments on the Atlantic coast, but 73 remain placed in orange vigilance, with temperatures rising, between 37 and 40 ° C in the East.
During the night from Monday to Tuesday, “a cooler oceanic air mass arrived from the west”, ending “the intense heat wave episode on the Atlantic coast”, notes the bulletin of Météo France, which specifies that "temperatures will start to rise again in the more eastern regions" with maximums between 37 and 40 degrees.
At the end of the day, "locally violent thunderstorms" are expected in the Hautes-Pyrénées and Béarn, before progressing towards the Toulouse region, the Dordogne and the Limousin.
These storms will locally cause violent gusts of wind and hailstorms, according to Météo France.
The two still virulent fires in Gironde
In this region, nearly 1,700 firefighters from all over France, supported by significant air resources, are mobilized against two fires which burned 4,700 ha of forest in La Teste-de-Buch and 12,000 in Landiras, in 50 km to the east, according to the last point of the prefecture of Gironde on Monday evening.
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In these two municipalities, 16,000 people had to be evacuated on Monday by scorching heat, with more than 40 ° C, bringing the total number of evacuees to 32,000 in six days.
A man has been taken into police custody as part of the investigation into the Landiras fire, the Bordeaux prosecutor's office announced.
At the end of the afternoon, a new fire broke out in Vensac, in the Médoc, burning 70 ha.
Campsites in the Arcachon basin ravaged by flames
At the foot of the Dune du Pilat, the five campsites, from which 6,000 holidaymakers had been evacuated on Wednesday night, "90% burned down", said the prefect of Gironde, Fabienne Buccio.
Many explosions sounded Monday afternoon, due to gas canisters left in campsites and abandoned restaurants.
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“We don't let ourselves be defeated, the fire doesn't do what it wants, we annoy it.
We are building firewalls, ditches, everything that can be done around it, ”says the prefect.
“The evacuation should allow the firefighters to concentrate on attacking the fire,” explains Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Mendousse, spokesman for the firefighters.
It's also burning in Brittany
More than 1,300 hectares of vegetation went up in smoke in the Monts d'Arrée (Finistère) and 300 people were evacuated.
195 firefighters and 50 firefighting vehicles are mobilized this Tuesday morning to fight the flames, according to a press release from the Finistère prefecture.
This fire broke out on Monday around 2:45 p.m. in the town of Brasparts (Finistère), in the heart of the Monts d'Arrée.
During the night of Monday to Tuesday, "the progression of the fire in the sector led the authorities to evacuate the town of Botmeur, the hamlets of Ti Beron, Roquinarc'h located in the town of Saint-Rivoal and the hamlet of Roudouderc' h located in the town of Sizun”, whose sports hall accommodates 92 displaced people, according to a situation report from the prefecture.
The fire from the south of Avignon is fixed
The fire started Thursday by sparks at the passage of a freight train in the Montagnette massif, south of Avignon, was fixed overnight by the firefighters, who continued on Tuesday to flood the edges to avoid a new reprise.
This fire, which had started Thursday at the foot of the massif, in the north of the Bouches-du-Rhône, burning some 1,500 hectares, had undergone a new recovery on Monday afternoon, forcing the emergency services to deploy 500 firefighters and 140 machines in total. , with the assistance in the air of three water bomber helicopters and a Canadair.
Faced with the threat, the mayor of the town of Barbentane had evacuated two districts as well as a crèche and a daycare center late Monday afternoon.
But the city was finally saved from the flames thanks to backfires caused by the firefighters, the elected official had reassured late Monday evening.
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Tuesday morning, 400 firefighters were still on the site "to drown the edges and treat the residual hearths" indicated a spokesperson for the firefighters of SDIS 13, specifying that this number should gradually decrease during the day.
Two Canadair must also be assigned to the area in the morning to speed up the flooding process and prevent a new outbreak of fire.
In total, 120 hectares have been covered since Monday during this new resumption of fire, in addition to the 1,500 already gone up in smoke.
Other regions affected
A fire resumed in Vauville, delegated municipality of La Hague (Manche).
According to the firefighters, 25 hectares of moors and meadows went up in smoke.
“The fire resumed due to the wind, which changes according to the tides”, explains Manuela Mahier, mayor of La Hague in West France.
Also in Sarthe, south of Le Mans, two fires burned 85 hectares and 15 others.
The latter is “our main source of concern in the coming hours”, indicates the prefect of Sarthe to France Bleu.