LIVE – Fires in Gironde: 10,500 hectares burned, the fires still not fixed – BFMTV

10:15 If the forecasts prove to be correct, “heat records will probably be reached in Finistère” “If the weather forecasts are proven, heat records will probably be reached in Finistère”, declares Philippe Mahe, prefect of Finistère, this Sunday on BFMTV. He mentions Brest where up to 40°C are expected on Monday afternoon, “it’s the 1947 record that will be broken.” In Quimper, “a peak of 39°C” is expected “as well as in Morlaix with more than 40°C”.10:08 Heat wave: temporary derogation from environmental rules for a fourth nuclear power plant a fourth nuclear power plant, that of Bugey, in Ain, to allow it to continue to operate “at a minimum level of power” during the heat wave, according to a decree published Sunday in the Official Journal. The decision of the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) of July 15 “temporarily setting new thermal discharge limits applicable to the reactors of the Bugey nuclear power plant, is approved”, according to JO.9:3540° C expected in Brittany: “it’s unheard of” declares the mayor of Saint-Brieuc36 degrees today and a predicted peak of 40°C in Brittany, “something we have never seen in Saint Brieuc” , in the Côtes d’Armor, said on BFMTV this Sunday Hervé Guihard, mayor of Saint-Brieuc. “In northern Brittany we are more around 24 -25°C, 41°C is unheard of, so I think that protective reflexes are not part of the population’s reflexes”. “We have a list of sensitive people, and we wrote to all the people on this list with all the rules “to be respected in a heat wave. Calls are also planned during the day. 9:15 The impact of the heat wave on farmers The cows of Christian Aussenac, farmer, are suffering from the current heat wave. “They have three water points, but even that is not enough to refresh them,” he explains to BFMTV. “There are openings everywhere” but the heat remains “heavy and moist” The cows eat less, rest less well, so “they give a little less milk”. In one week nearly 600 liters less were produced. The farmer is also afraid for his corn production, and has planned to harvest a month earlier to feed his animals. 9:06 Senate President Gérard Larcher present in Gironde Senate President Gérard Larcher (LR) went this Sunday in Gironde, at Teste-de-Buch, “to greet our firefighters engaged in the fight against the fires and take stock of the situation, while nearly 3,500 hectares have been destroyed by the flames.” 8:38 Fire in Landiras: ” the worst conditions we can have””The weather conditions remain very complicated” in the Landiras area, explains Vincent Ferrier, sub-prefect of Langon (Gironde), this Sunday morning. “Today it will be hot, tomorrow it will be even hotter”. We have “for the moment dominant winds from the North which push towards the South-West, but we anticipate for Monday the end of the day a wind which would turn”. “We have very, very bad weather conditions” he repeated , “it’s obviously when you’re fighting a fire the worst conditions you can have”.8:33In Landiras, “the fire is not fixed” but its “progress is contained””The fire was rather well contained this night, we held the lines well”, explains Vincent Ferrier, sub-prefect of Langon (Gironde) this Sunday morning, underlining a “big job of the firefighters”. “We are at around 7,200 hectares” burned in the Landiras area, “obviously the fire is not fixed but it is a progression that is contained, we have mastered the evolution of the fire during the night”, repeats t -he, ensuring that “all the houses were kept overnight”. According to him, there are no new evacuations planned in the short term. 8:0310,500 hectares burned in total in GirondeIn total 10,500 hectares were burned by the fires in Gironde, writes the prefecture this Sunday morning: “7100 in Landiras and 3400 in La Teste-de-Buch”. “Several resumptions of fire this night threatened the campsites of the Dune du Pilat which had to be evacuated from their guards”, write the authorities who call to “avoid the sectors” at risk. 7:47 Towards the hottest day ever recorded in BrittanyThis Monday, the day of the heat peak in France, could be the hottest day ever recorded in Brittany since meteorological stations have existed. Absolute temperature records – i.e. all months combined – could be broken in the western regions. °C in Rennes, Lorient and Nantes (where the record is 37.5°C). However, it will only be a short-lived strong heat stroke, which should only last two or three days, unlike the south-west which has been suffering from a heat wave for a week. 6:56 Devastating fires in Spain and PortugalPart of Western Europe continued to fight devastating forest fires this weekend. Portugal was relatively calm, with only one major fire still active on Saturday in the north of the country. According to a report from the Portuguese civil protection, the fires of the last week have left two dead and around sixty injured. According to his estimates, these fires have ravaged between 12,000 and 15,000 hectares of forest and brush since the start of the heat wave. In Spain, dozens of fires were still raging from north to south of the country. In the far south, in Andalusia, a fire near Malaga forced the preventive evacuation of more than 3,000 people, according to the Andalusian emergency services. , the mobilization of firefighters is not weakening to fix the fires, particularly in Gironde where nearly 10,000 hectares of forest have gone up in smoke since Tuesday. to slow the spread of the fire. “This evening, we are at 3200 hectares burned against 3150 this morning in La Teste-de-Buch, the perimeter is almost constant but the fire is not absolutely under control”, declared in the evening to the press the sub-prefect of Arcachon. Further inland, the fire continues to progress in two small towns, with now “more than 7000 hectares” burned, according to the authorities. In total, these fires, which mobilize more than a thousand firefighters, have since Tuesday resulted in the evacuation of more than 14,000 people. on the alert orange heat wave for the day on Sunday due to the heat wave which is hitting the country, announced Météo France in its morning bulletin. The episode of high heat, which should last at least until the beginning next week, mainly concerned Aquitaine, Occitania, the Rhône valley and Provence with maximums between 35 and 39 degrees on Saturday, or even 40 degrees locally. The highs in these regions are expected to reach between 35 and 40 degrees on Sunday with temperatures reaching 41 degrees locally in the South West.