In Le Porge, After the Massive Fire, a Population "at Their Wits' End" and "Traumatized" Before the Start of the School Year
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This Tuesday morning, the start of school at the Jean-Degoul school in Porge was not only that of the 248 pupils. But that of a whole village, moved to return to normal life and to leave the darkness
The municipality hard hit by the megafire of Saumos has done everything to help the victims before the return to class on Tuesday, September 1. Nevertheless, teachers expect to face the trauma of the children.
More than 180 houses in the Porge burned during the mega-fire. One month after the disaster, the victims face many choices: leaving or staying? How to start from scratch? If some want to rebuild as quickly as possible, others have finally resigned to leave the place. The mayor estimates that 10 to 15% of the population, deeply traumatized, will not return. At the town hall, meetings are also held to imagine the future of the commune. (Regions).
The Jean Degoul school, untouched like the village surrounding it, almost makes one forget the devastation just a short distance away, along the avenues of Médoc and Bassin-d'Arcachon, where most of the destroyed houses were located. In the Gironde department, the fire that started in Saumos on July 22nd was contained on August 1st, after having burned through 42,000 hectares, an unprecedented event in France since 1949. At the school, which se…
This Tuesday, September 1st, thousands of children will go back to school. But for some students it could be particular in Biscarrosse, in the Landes, or in Porge, in Gironde. Both villages were hit by the heavy fire this summer.
The village of Porge, epicenter of the megafire of Saumos, which decimated 42,000 hectares in Gironde in July, is far from having finished dressing its wounds.
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