প্রকাশ: 13/07/2022
About 600
firefighters, supported by six water-bomber aircraft, were on Wednesday
battling to bring under control two wildfires in southwestern France, which
have already burnt more than 1,700 hectares and prompted the evacuation of
thousands of tourists.
"Important human and material resources are being
deployed to master the fires (...) local and national reinforcements are
expected," said the local authority for the Gironde department, where the
blazes are raging.
France, already hit by a series of wildfires over the last
few weeks, is suffering - like the rest of Europe - from a second heatwave in
as many months.
Several wildfires swept across Portugal's central region as
well as in western Spain on Tuesday, also forcing the evacuation of hundreds of
residents.
The biggest of the two Gironde fires is around the town of
Landiras, south of Bordeaux, where roads have been closed and 500 residents
evacuated, with the blaze having already burnt more than 1,000 hectares.
The other one is along the Atlantic Coast, close to the
iconic "Dune du Pilat" - the tallest sand dune in Europe - located in
the Arcachon Bay area, above which heavy clouds of dark smoke were seen rising
in the sky.
That fire has already burnt 700 hectares and led to the
preventive evacuation of 6,000 people from five surrounding campsites. They
were brought for shelter to a local exhibition centre.
"Other campers woke us up at around 0430 in the
morning. We had to leave immediately and quickly choose what to take with us. I
had forgotten my ID, luckily someone took it for me. But I don't have my phone
(...) and we don't know what is going to happen," Christelle, one of the
evacuated tourists, told BFM TV.
On the eve of Bastille Day, the Gironde prefecture has
forbidden all fireworks until Monday, July 18 in towns and villages in close
proximity to forests.
- Reuters
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