The two fires which started Tuesday afternoon in Gironde, in Landiras and near the dune of Pilat, resulting in thousands of evacuations, had ravaged this Wednesday morning 1200 hectares of pines, according to a last assessment of the prefecture of Gironde.
445 hectares were burned at Teste-de-Buch, near the Pilat dune, and 800 hectares at Landiras, about forty kilometers south of Bordeaux, according to a press release.
6000 people evacuated
The fire which led to the evacuation of 6,000 people staying in five campsites in the very touristic area of Pilat, was “not fixed” this Wednesday morning, said Commander Laurent Dellac, of Codis Gironde, who evokes a “configuration operationally difficult.
The people evacuated as a precaution were directed to the exhibition center and to the shopping mall of a hypermarket in Teste-de-Buch, added the prefecture in a press release, specifying that “no injuries are to be deplored “.
The Red Cross and Civil Protection are on site, she said.
600 firefighters mobilized
The departmental road D218 is also cut between the Pilat roundabout and Biscarosse plage.
A hundred motorhomes parked in the area were also evacuated, according to firefighters.
Near Landiras, the fire had ravaged 800 hectares on Wednesday morning, according to the prefecture.
Five hamlets and the village of Guillos, around 500 people, were evacuated as a precaution on Tuesday evening, also without injuries to deplore. The departmental roads D115 and D125 have been closed.
The prefecture specifies that nearly 600 firefighters are engaged on these two fires, helped by two Canadair and two Dash planes.
Additional national reinforcements are expected in the morning.
The south-west is facing a heatwave episode which is raging for the second time in a month in France and for which seven departments are placed on heatwave orange vigilance.