Since the beginning of the flood episode in Gironde, the gendarmes have taken out sheep and a deer from the water.

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Patrice Héraud / Gendarmerie New Aquitaine

  • Last Friday, the Bourg gendarmes intervened in Tauriac to save four sheep and three lambs from drowning.

  • The animals could no longer flee the flooded meadow in which they were.

  • A few days earlier, the gendarmes of the Arcachon nautical brigade, who patrolled the waters in the Marmandais, had brought a deer in great difficulty out of the water.

Rescue operations are increasing for the gendarmes of the Gironde, since the start of the floods in the department.

And not just for the locals.

This Tuesday, they tell how they rescued trapped sheep last Friday, after having already brought a deer out of the water a few days before.

Friday around 5 p.m., at a place called La Luster, in Tauriac in the north of the department, the gendarmes of the Bourg brigade, accompanied by the mayor of the town, thus saved seven sheep (four sheep and three lambs) from drowning. no longer able to flee the flooded meadow in which they were.

The animals had indeed found themselves stuck in a meter of water, and with fatigue, they could no longer move alone.

The gendarmes saved a total of four sheep and three lambs - Gendarmerie de la Gironde

"The gendarmes did not hesitate to get in the water to catch them and bring them back to dry land where they were dried and warmed before returning to another pasture," the soldiers recounted on their Facebook page.

"The animal was running out and had no chance of finding a bank"

A few days earlier, it was the gendarmes of the Arcachon nautical brigade engaged in the floods in the Marmandais (Lot-et-Garonne), who saved a deer in difficulty in the middle of the river, while they were patrolling the waters to help people isolated in their homes in villages "cut off from the world."

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The gendarmes of Arcachon saved a deer from drowning, in the Marmandais - Patrice Héraud / Gendarmerie Nouvelle Aquitaine

"The animal was running out and had no chance of finding a bank in the middle of these bodies of water," say the soldiers.

Recovered then hoisted aboard the semi-rigid, he found solid ground after ten minutes of navigation.

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