Galley on the rails in the South-West… TER and TGV train traffic is blocked south of Bordeaux on Tuesday due to a fire which broke out in the middle of the afternoon near Dax, in the Landes, we learned from the SNCF.

"All trains have been interrupted since 3 p.m. on the Bordeaux-Hendaye and Bordeaux-Dax-Tarbes lines" due to the flames near the tracks in Laluque, in the south of the Landes, according to an SNCF spokesperson.

The company was not able at the end of the afternoon to give an estimate on the time of resumption of traffic and invited travelers to postpone their trips on this line.

red vigilance

At 5:30 p.m., the fire had ravaged 30 hectares of pines.

Two Canadair, a Dash plane, nearly 170 firefighters and a dozen gendarmes are mobilized according to the Landes prefecture which announced the passage of the department in red vigilance (level 4 out of 5) for the risk of fire from Wednesday midnight.

Another fire had been set in the morning after having covered 300 hectares since Sunday in the pine forest in the far north of the department, on the border with Gironde, also placed on red alert for the risk of fires.

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