Fires in Gironde and the Landes: "As Soon as You Smell a Burning Smell, It's that There's a Very Toxic Concentration. You Have to Put on a mask."
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According to Éric Villenave, a specialist in air quality and climate change, it is necessary to protect yourself during fires or canicular episodes on the same subject
RECIT - While the fire from Saumos burned nearly 32,700 hectares and is approaching the Bordeaux agglomeration, a question arises: what will eventually stop it? The precedents of 1949 in Gironde and 2023 in the Greek Evros allow us to understand how a front stops progressing, long before the fire is actually extinguished.
Many cities in the south-west, even far from the Arcachon Basin, are affected by fire smoke in the Landes and especially in Gironde. Infants, elderly people or people with respiratory disease are particularly at risk.
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Smelled by the west winds, the smoke smells of the Gironde fire are felt in Bordeaux, and even in other departments.
The winds carry smoke from the Gironde and Landes fires to Brittany on 25 July 2026. A milky sky and a burning smell will be perceptible.
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