“Another difficult night on the fire front,” L. Nunez wrote on the social network “X”.
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He emphasized that the situation in the Gironde department, where Bordeaux is located, is particularly difficult.
“In Gironde, the fire became extremely intense and unpredictable again at the beginning of the night. It created its own winds and spread irregularly towards the Bordeaux metropolitan area,” said L. Nunez.
According to the minister, the fire subsided at the end of the night. In total, the burned area has already reached 42 thousand hectares.
2.5 thousand firefighters, including a Swiss team, 1.5 thousand military personnel, and about 1.2 thousand police officers are involved in fighting the flames in Gironde, he stated.
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“18 aircraft have been deployed to extinguish the fires since this morning,” said L. Nunez. He added that a specially modified A400M military transport aircraft would be used again.
Firefighters are also trying to control a large fire in the neighboring Landes region, where 3.6 thousand hectares have burned, L. Nunez informed.
Meanwhile, in the Var region in southeastern France, almost 3 thousand people have been evacuated as a precautionary measure, he added.
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