The toll is heavy, even if few human victims are to be deplored, two firefighters having died in Loire-Atlantique and in Bouches-du-Rhône. The summer fires consumed nearly 72,000 hectares in France, six times more than the average for the last ten years, with a scorching summer and record drought. And these very intense fires affected the Gironde, in La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras, but also Brittany, in the Arrée mountains or the Brocéliande forest, Gard, Jura, Maine-et-Loire… Also read the report: Article reserved for our subscribers At La Teste-de-Buch, in Gironde, “there will be a before and after the fire” From July 20, the Head of State, traveling to La Teste-de-Buch, had promised additional means of control, aerial in particular, and announced “a major national project to replant”. Friday, October 28, Emmanuel Macron clarified these announcements, first thanking some three hundred actors invited to the Elysee Palace, who participated in the mobilization of the summer: firefighters, pilots of helicopters and water bomber planes , mayors, staff of the National Forestry Office (ONF), farmers, residents, volunteers, civil security associations and even the ambassadors of countries who have come to provide logistical support, such as Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania , Austria, Italy or Sweden. The Head of State first returned to the results of this “summer in hell”, to use the words of Grégory Allione, the president of the National Federation of Firefighters of France, pronounced during its 128th congress, in Nancy, on September 21. Climatologists and meteorologists, like scientists from the National Institute for Research in Science and Technology for the Environment and Agriculture, are unanimous on the changes to be expected in the coming years. In the future, the fires will be more numerous, more violent, taking advantage of drier vegetation, more scattered fires also on the territory, going back to higher and more northern areas, with a season that will start earlier in the year. year and will end later. Making this “exceptional” summer a scenario that will repeat itself. This blackboard leads the authorities to want to “change software”, we are assured at the Elysée. Read also: “Abnormally hot” days in summer: in France, territories more exposed than others Increase in the means of the ONF In his speech, Emmanuel Macron addressed topics related to the prevention of fires such as those related to the means to deploy to combat them. He announced new measures so that the legal clearing obligations are better applied, with a reinforced communication campaign, more rigorous control and, in the event of a deficiency, the possibility for the public authorities to quickly replace the owner. failing. A law, announced for 2024, could change the procedures to make them clearer. You have 46.99% of this article left to read. The following is for subscribers only.