TGV and TER traffic interrupted south of Bordeaux due to a fire


The SNCF announced Tuesday evening that traffic will not resume in the evening due to a fire “still in progress”, which destroyed 30 hectares of pines and mobilized nearly 170 firefighters.

TER and TGV train traffic interrupted Tuesday afternoon in the Landes due to a fire, will not resume in the evening, AFP learned from SNCF. Traffic, interrupted around 3:30 p.m. between Morcenx and Dax after a fire in the town of Laluque (south of Landes), “will not resume tonight”according to a spokesperson.

On the Bordeaux-Hendaye and Bordeaux-Dax-Tarbes lines, “Three TGVs to Paris from the south of Bordeaux were held up at Dax station. They will return to their station of origin., added the SNCF. In a press release at the start of the evening, the Landes prefecture indicated that the fire was “ongoing” but the situation judged “favorable”.

The fire which destroyed nearly 30 hectares of pines, mobilized two Canadairs, a Dash plane, nearly 170 firefighters and a dozen gendarmes. Eight houses were evacuated “as a preventive measure”. The prefecture specified that the SNCF had “distributed water and meals to all travelers” blocked, putting “everything to offer them accommodation solutions”. The department has been placed on yellow alert “significant risk” by the Weather Channel * because of the heat but also the risk of forest fires, just like neighboring Lot-et-Garonne.

*La Chaîne Météo is a property of the Le Figaro group.


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