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Forest fire in France 2026 - Bordeaux Threatened (6th most populated french urban metropole)

Onoya said:
Hey, i'm having a little rest time after 20 hours of fighting. I'm well, exhausted but we did some good fight!
Nothing much more to say since last time i reported, here is a little report image did yesterday, but nothing much changed since then.


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Tomorrow will be decisive tho
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I understand how they feel. We have had some terrible bushfires in Queensland and Australia. There had been a lot of rain here with lots of heavy plant growth earlier in the year. We are now having one of the driest winters we have had for years. This will leave a heavy fuel load by summer so within the next couple of months we will experience the same issue here in Australia.

A few years ago an evacuation alert went out for the whole suburb of Gracemere where the practice I worked at got an order to evacuate immediately. Escorted out by fire fighters and police. The sky was black and you could feel the heat from the fire that was a few kilometers away. You feel so useless and disorientated so I can understand how those in France feel. It leaves you in a state where you don't know what to do and are too shocked to think. This I imagine is how they would be feeling. I evacuated about 5 km to my own hone when there was an update requiring a second evacuation. You feel useless and start to question what to grab and what to do which is exactly how the residents there would have felt, Feeling absolutely useless.
 
Dr Arthur said:
I understand how they feel. We have had some terrible bushfires in Queensland and Australia. There had been a lot of rain here with lots of heavy plant growth earlier in the year. We are now having one of the driest winters we have had for years. This will leave a heavy fuel load by summer so within the next couple of months we will experience the same issue here in Australia.

A few years ago an evacuation alert went out for the whole suburb of Gracemere where the practice I worked at got an order to evacuate immediately. Escorted out by fire fighters and police. The sky was black and you could feel the heat from the fire that was a few kilometers away. You feel so useless and disorientated so I can understand how those in France feel. It leaves you in a state where you don't know what to do and are too shocked to think. This I imagine is how they would be feeling. I evacuated about 5 km to my own hone when there was an update requiring a second evacuation. You feel useless and start to question what to grab and what to do which is exactly how the residents there would have felt, Feeling absolutely useless.
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i totally understand it... My village also got burnt down in the 2025 Corbières Fire (2025 Corbières Massif wildfire - Wikipedia), i know how it feels to be threatened like that...

And that's that fire in 2025 than made me enlist as a firefighter tho
 
And here is the daily "report" from local authorities :

Fire is stabilised but not fixed (aka, it's slowly spreading but not uncontrollable anymore, which allows the firefighters to deploy better and protect better housing).

Another village got evacuated, Lacanau, but only partially (only mobil-home, touristics stuff).

93 firefighters have been wounded so far in that fire (and unknown amount of farmers wounded that came to help fight)

Surface burnt is estimated at 42 000 hectares.

Mobilisation stays high, with 2 750 firefighters (counting french and Europeans reinforcement), 18 water bombers, 1500 military troops and 1440 gendarmes/police officers mobilised on the fire (to both fight it, manage the evacuations, patrol evacuated towns to avoid looting)


 
6pm (France time):

Some fire that got stopped or extinguished last night or this morning are restarting due to the wind increasing, dry soil. This is happening in a bad moment because now, most firefighters troops on site are exhausted, and night will be soon here, so no water bombers support.


This night will be decisive and will tell if the fight gonna continue for days or weeks.


On a better note, some area that got burnt are totally extinguished (no flame, soil drowned by water from the firefighters) and some areas's evacuation orders are starting to be lifted (West part of Merignac town that got evacuated can now be repopulated again, according the mayor on the post on the official facebook profile for the town)
 
Update from regional authorities :
9 new villages got evacuation order lifted (
  • Mios,
  • Le Barp,
  • Cestas,
  • Saint-Jean d'Illac,
  • Martignas sur Jalle,
  • Saint-Medard en Jalles,
  • Saint-Aubin de Médoc,
  • Salaunes,
  • Sainte-Hélène. )
And A63 Highway is reopened. Population of those villages are asked to be careful, to stay ready to evacuate again if situation detoriates





Overall, situation is calming down, some Rekindles are happening once in a while, but we are likely to be on the end of that fire (unless a rekindle manages to really start again)

I'm considering the crisis to be over and will stop posting unless situation detoriates again badly.

I'm got send home to rest today, so i'm not on site anymore
 
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