L’fire which has ravaged 7,000 hectares of forest since July 12 in La Teste-de-Buch, in the Arcachon basin, is “fixed”, indicated the prefecture of Gironde on Saturday July 23. The other fire which broke out the same day in Gironde, in the Landiras sector, and which burned 13,800 hectares of forest, is not yet fixed, due to the risk of resumption.
This fire is still considered “contained”. After 11 days of fighting the flames, all the inhabitants evacuated in a preventive manner in this municipality are now authorized to return to their homes, with the support of the national police. About thirty fires remain active, the monitoring of the massif, the treatment of the edges and the resumption of fire as well as the civil engineering work are continuing.
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No casualties to report
In the Landiras sector, a little less than a third of the people evacuated preventively have not yet been able to return to their homes, but the authorities continue to study sector by sector the possibilities of reintegration for these people. Despite the magnitude of these two fires (20,800 hectares burned, more than 36,000 people evacuated), no casualties were reported. Significant land and air resources (2 Canadairs and 2 forest fire attack helicopters) remain mobilized.