French authorities have ordered the evacuation of nearly 4,000 people from campsites, tourist residences, holiday villages, and amusement parks around Lacanau, on the French Atlantic coast, as worsening weather conditions threaten to increase the risk of forest fires. The regional authorities of Gironde specified that the evacuations affected Lacanau Ocean and both shores of Lacanau lake. Residents were asked to take their personal belongings, follow emergency instructions, and stay away from the area until authorities allow their return.
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French firefighters, however, kept the large forest fire in the southwest of the country under control throughout the night until this morning, extinguishing hotspots near the dunes of the Atlantic coast: a crucial truce before the return of heat and the drop in humidity threaten to severely test their control over the flames. The fire remained under control at 6 a.m., after a quiet night, and the burned area remained unchanged at 420 square kilometers, the Gironde prefecture reported.
In France, southwest blaze under control throughout the night
During the night, several hotspots were detected north of Le Porge and in the dunes north of Cap Ferret, but they were extinguished by firefighters, according to authorities. “We are in a fragile situation,” Eric Brocardi, spokesperson for the National Federation of French Firefighters, said Tuesday on BfmTv, “We will continue to fight this fire despite the expected temperature increase.” The affected areas are located along the Atlantic coast west of Bordeaux, where firefighting teams have been battling the flames since the fire broke out near Saumos last week. However, the nighttime truce does not mean the danger has passed. The fire remains stabilized but not extinguished, which means it can still spread.
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The fire, raging since last week, has proven extremely unpredictable, at times turning into a self-sustaining firestorm as it spread over an area four times larger than Paris and forced 220,000 people to abandon their homes and accommodations. Even after 24 hours without further progress, authorities warned that still-smoking vegetation, rising temperatures, and falling humidity could cause new hotspots along the vast perimeter.
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This morning firefighters and military engineers resumed work on creating tactical firebreaks aimed at preventing the spread of flames. Authorities stated that 103 kilometers of firebreaks have been completed.
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