Faced with the scale of the ongoing forest fires in Gironde, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced on Wednesday that he would go to the department at the end of the day, against a backdrop of a heat wave throughout the south of France. .

Faced with the scale of the forest fires in Gironde, where 1500 hectares have already been burned, I am going there this afternoon to the firefighters and elected officials.

Thousands of other hectares are still threatened, we are fully mobilized.

@BCouillard33

– Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) July 13, 2022


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According to those around him, the minister is expected at 6.30 p.m. at Teste-de-Buch, near the Dune du Pilat, where 700 ha of pines have been destroyed by the flames since Tuesday afternoon, according to the latest report from the prefect Fabienne Buccio.

6,000 campers evacuated

A thousand hectares of pines also went up in smoke in Landiras, about forty kilometers south of Bordeaux, according to the representative of the State.

During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, around 6,000 campers residing near the Dune du Pilat were evacuated to the Parc des Expositions de La Teste-de-Buch.

The Gironde prefecture had placed the department on orange alert on Tuesday for forest fires, due to the heat wave affecting the region, with maximum temperatures which could reach 39° on Wednesday afternoon in the South-West. , according to Météo-France.

Forest fires have already burned nearly 1,000 hectares in Gironde

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