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A union of civil aviation pilots, fighting forest fires in Gironde, asked on Sunday for more planes and available personnel, Civil Security recognizing a “tense” situation but stressing the increase to come. material and human resources. In the evening on Sunday, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced that “three additional planes will come to support the six already engaged, to bring the fleet engaged to nine aircraft”, to fight against fires in Gironde, “i.e. a 50% increase in air resources”. “As I speak to you, we don’t have the planes we should have,” Christophe Govillot, spokesman for the National Union of Flight Crew, told AFP earlier today. civil aeronautics (Snpnac) which ” does not want to argue, but just work” in order “to help our firefighter friends in the field”.