The air is unbearable, the smoke fills the sky with a thick fog that prevents the sun from coming through. Desolation has frozen more than 13,300 hectares in the commune of Gironde, where the disaster was declared, after a week of fire in Landiras. As far as the eye can see, in this vast pine forest, the trees are charred, the ground is black, and smoke rises from the still-burning peat. Ready to ignite new flames at the slightest gust of strong wind. This is where all the firefighters are afraid. after days and nights of fighting, if they no longer have to face these walls of fire, they encounter a more insidious adversary that fights on the ground and climbs up here and there to start again. fire Two of them were seriously injured, including one in Landiras, Gerald Darmanin said Tuesday night..
“This is what we fear and watch now.”, says Frank Quenell, a firefighter with the department. And at the end of the day, around 5 pm…
Source: Le Figaro
