• Firefighters are in high demand this Tuesday morning due to a burning smell felt in Nantes and the surrounding area.

  • The consequence of the fires of Gironde, while no fire of such a large scale is in progress in the department.

“Don't you think it smells burnt?

"What's that smell in Nantes?"

“Since Tuesday morning, many residents of the Nantes conurbation have been worried about a strong smell perceptible in the four corners of the Loire-Atlantique.

So much so that the firefighters switchboard heats up: “We receive a lot of calls on this subject, the smell of burning without smoke and without identified origin, indicates the communication department of Sdis 44. We ask to dial 18 or 112 that in the event of a fire.

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If no large-scale fire is underway in the department, it is in fact towards the Gironde, more than 300 km to the south, that you have to turn, explains the organization Air Pays-de-la-Loire.

“Looking at the retrotrajectories of the air masses, we believe that this smell is indeed linked to the fires in New Aquitaine, explains the communication department.

There are also rises in particle levels, which however remain moderate, far from pollution thresholds.

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Other air masses arrive

Around 10 a.m., the smell began to fade, due to “the arrival of air masses of different origin, which also cooled the temperatures”, continues the organization.

In Loire-Atlantique, repeated vegetation fires have strongly mobilized firefighters in recent days.

Interventions were still in progress on Tuesday morning.

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