LIVE – Gironde: the mayor of La Teste-de-Buch affirms “that the firefighters have taken over” despite new fire starts – BFMTV

9:07 More than 9000 hectares burned in Gironde “If the burned areas remain stable on La Teste-de-Buch (3150ha), they have increased sharply on Landiras (more than 6000 ha), i.e. more than 1000 ha since 10 p.m. last night” , writes the prefecture of Gironde on Twitter this Saturday morning. In total, the damage caused by the fires is therefore 9150 hectares. However, there has been no additional evacuation since Friday evening. 9:03 Bouches-du-Rhône: the fire in the Montagnette massif is fixed The fire declared in the Montagnette massif (Bouches-du-Rhône) is fixed, indicated the mayor of the commune Michel Pécout to BFMTV. In the night from Friday to Saturday, the firefighters treated the few resumptions of fire and perfected the drowning around the dwellings near the SNCF track, they said. indicated in their last point. 800 firefighters were mobilized on the spot. The fire covered 1,500 hectares of land. 8:35 In Gironde, the next few hours “will be decisive” “Usually we have fires that cover a few hundred hectares and here we are talking about thousands hectares” burned, explains this Saturday morning on BFMTV Yaël Lecras, vice-president of the national union of professional firefighters. “The situation is complicated, the fires will go up, the drought is still present, our colleagues need to be relayed”The next few hours “will be decisive”, according to him, because “the south-west massif presents this characteristic that it is extremely extensive unlike the southeast”. If “the fire descends on the Landes, it will have enough ‘to eat’ to progress very quickly, this is obviously a major fear”. – noon “We are organizing the possibility that at 2 p.m. we can bring people by small wagons to take care of their dogs, either to recover them or to treat them” in Cazaux, explains on BFMTV Patrick Davet, mayor of the Teste-de-Buch. “Especially if they listen to me, that they look on the networks” for the top. animal they need to take care of”, explains the mayor. Transfers are planned from 2 p.m., but “all of this is conditional” because if there is a resumption of fire in the area, “we will be forced to cancel”. 8:17 Despite the start of fires, the fire “has not grown or widened”, assures the mayor of Teste-de-Buch “It was a very dense night because in any case you have to protect constantly, even when there is a lull” , explains this Saturday morning on BFMTV Patrick Davet, mayor of Teste-de-Buch (Gironde). The firefighters “worked hard to prevent there being a recovery. There were one or two here or there, but we can consider that the firefighters took over” in places. The mayor, however, points out “fire starts on the side of the ocean beaches and more particularly the Salie and the Lagoon, we will most certainly close these beaches to tourists, to avoid making them take risks”, he explains, assuring that the authorities were going to be “very vigilant” this Saturday. “We have 3150 hectares which are burned so there is no positive point but it has not grown or widened”, declares Patrick Davet. -du-Rhône, some 900 firefighters remained mobilized in the face of the fire which has struck the Montagnette massif since Thursday, south of Avignon, the wind complicating their work. The events took a legal turn with the opening of an investigation for involuntary fire, this fire having obviously been started by a freight train. “According to testimonies, this freight train would have generated sparks several times”, a explained to AFP the prosecutor of Tarascon. This train “caused nine fire starts”, according to Lieutenant-Colonel Bisone to AFP, saying that everything would be “probably linked to a blocked brake shoe”. Workforce in GirondeA detachment of 37 firefighters from Hauts-de-France, including 12 from the North, joined the staff already present on the Landiras site on Monday, “in order to strengthen and support the department of Gironde, which is currently experiencing major forest fires”, explains in a video SDIS 59 (Nord). “The detachment is made up of personnel from the Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Oise and Aisne”, and should arrive around 5 p.m. this Monday in Gironde. 6:54 Nearly 8000 hectares burned in Gironde In its last point Friday evening, the prefecture of Gironde announced that 7850 hectares had, in all, been burned by the fires: 3150 hectares at the Teste-de-Buch and 4700 hectares in the Landiras area. In all, 11,900 people were evacuated. 6:5116 departments still on orange alert this Saturday morning Lot (46), Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), Hautes-Pyrénées (65), Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), Ardèche (07), Drôme (26), Gard (30), Haute-Garonne (31) ), Gironde (33), Lot-et-Garonne (47), Pyrénées-Orientales (66), Tarn (81), Tarn-et-Garonne (82) and Vaucluse (84). As well as Andorra. “Saturday afternoon, the temperatures will start to rise slowly on the northern half. On the southern half they will remain very high”, writes Vigi Météo France. “They will be on the rise in the South-West, between 36 and 39°C sometimes reaching 40°C. In the South-East they will be of the same order as Friday.”