The 40-kilometre active fire front in the Gironde and Landes departments around Bordeaux had"not progressed for 48 hours", Gironde firefighting chief Marc Vermeulen said on Friday afternoon.
At the Merignac air base, near the southwestern city of Bordeaux, where Canadair planes and other firefighting aircraft are stationed, a Greek pilot said scenes of devastation like the ones seen in France were commonplace in his home country. The blaze near Bordeaux erupted in July - the driest month seen in France since 1961 - destroying 14,000 hectares and forcing thousands of people to evacuate before it was contained.Officials suspect arson may have played a role in the latest flare-up, which has burned 7,400 hectares since Tuesday.Fires in 2022 have ravaged an area three times the annual average over the past 10 years, with blazes also active in the Alpine Jura, Isere and Ardeche regions this week.
On Friday, 19 departments were still at the highest orange heat alert level set by weather authority Meteo-France. "We've been forced to adapt, we work from very early in the morning or even at night. I started at 3:00 am last night, and people with farm hands start at 6:00 to avoid the heat". The service warned that a large proportion of western Europe was now in"extreme fire danger" with some areas of"very extreme fire danger".
Everyday rte publishes some natural event that they think will branwash people into believing in climate change nonsense. People are coping on to this scam because they see unscrupulous politicians using it as an opportunity to increase taxes and reduce their standard of living
Who started it?
Not really large swathes of southwestern France...It is a big country ...
Destroyed large swathes of southwestern France? Hyperbole much?!
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