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Gironde: at least 160 hectares destroyed and 500 people evacuated after a fire

2022-09-12T19:32:19.035Z


The region was hit by a record heat peak on Monday, a climate conducive to fire starts. Summer is coming to an end but the threat of fires is still alive. A forest fire in progress since Monday afternoon has covered some 160 ha of vegetation near Bordeaux, and forced the evacuation of the town, we learned from the firefighters of the Gironde. 🔥🌲 #FeuDeForêt in Saumos (33): 2 #Canadair and a heavy water bomber helicopter are engaged alongside the 150 firefighters of the SDIS 33 mob


Summer is coming to an end but the threat of fires is still alive.

A forest fire in progress since Monday afternoon has covered some 160 ha of vegetation near Bordeaux, and forced the evacuation of the town, we learned from the firefighters of the Gironde.

🔥🌲 #FeuDeForêt in Saumos (33): 2 #Canadair and a heavy water bomber helicopter are engaged alongside the 150 firefighters of the SDIS 33 mobilized.



⚠️ Avoid the area and report any fire outbreak to 18/112 pic.twitter.com/tWIhJX7yRl

– Civil Security (@SecCivileFrance) September 12, 2022

About 300 firefighters were present this evening in the town of Saumos, a village located between the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean and the Bordeaux conurbation, and significant air resources were mobilized, with two Canadairs, two helicopters and a plane. Dash.

Some 500 people evacuated from Saumos must go to shelters in the neighboring towns of Le Temple and Sainte-Hélène, according to Codis 33.

high heat

The Gironde, affected by major fires this summer (nearly 30,000 ha burned), experienced very high temperatures on Monday, with in particular a monthly record recorded in Bordeaux (37.5 ° C), never seen since 1987 .

VIDEO.

Fires in Gironde: the damage seen from the sky

According to the Landes firefighters, another fire had been underway since this afternoon, with around 45 ha burned, in Herm, north of Dax, where a heat record for the month of September was also beaten on Monday (39° VS).

A hundred firefighters and air resources were mobilized on this fire which, like that of Saumos, is not located in the Landes de Gascogne massif, the largest softwood forest in Europe according to local authorities.

Source: leparis

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