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

Onoya

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Opening a thread about that, because for the first time, a major french town is threatened by wild fire (Bordeaux, that's a town with 1 000 000 inhabitants). Already over 140 000 have been evacuated.

Some external neighborhood have been ordered to evacuate, and the army has been deployed to both reinforce the firefighters and to help to manage the evacuations.

Several EU countries has sent water bomber planes/copters reinforcement (Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Portugal)

From next monday tho, i won't be able to really post about it, because i'll be sent too as reinforcement (i'm a firefighter)
 
(That's an article from yesterday, i struggle to find updated ones in english)
www.pbs.org

More than 200,000 people flee raging wildfires in France and Spain, some escaping by boat

Massive forest fires burned out of control in southwestern France and central Spain on Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate an estimated 200,000 people from their homes. Some even fled by boat when flames swept through the touristic area on France’s Atlantic coast.
www.pbs.org www.pbs.org
 
In response to the scale of the fires ravaging the Gironde, the French Prime Minister's office announced the deployment of an A400M military transport aircraft starting this Saturday—a decision made at the request of Sébastien Lecornu. Equipped with an experimental drop kit designed by Airbus, the aircraft can release up to 20 tonnes of fire retardant in a single pass, equivalent to the capacity of two Canadair planes.

 
Local farmers are organizing to provide support to firefighters (bringing them citerns full of water to refill fire trucks faster, also bringing them foods and drinks, and sometimes directly fighting fire with "civilian" pump and hose)

www.ici.fr

Incendies : des agriculteurs de Dordogne partent en renfort en Gironde - ICI

Une vingtaine d'agriculteurs périgourdins se rendent en Gironde ce samedi 25 juillet 2026. Ils sont partis avec du matériel pour aider les pompiers qui combattent les flammes depuis trois jours.
www.ici.fr www.ici.fr
 
Onoya said:
Local farmers are organizing to provide support to firefighters (bringing them citerns full of water to refill fire trucks faster, also bringing them foods and drinks, and sometimes directly fighting fire with "civilian" pump and hose)

www.ici.fr

Incendies : des agriculteurs de Dordogne partent en renfort en Gironde - ICI

Une vingtaine d'agriculteurs périgourdins se rendent en Gironde ce samedi 25 juillet 2026. Ils sont partis avec du matériel pour aider les pompiers qui combattent les flammes depuis trois jours.
www.ici.fr www.ici.fr
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Video of farmer on highway driving to the fire area to provide support
https://twitter.com/x/status/2081117996718686405
 
That's gonna be my last post for a while i guess, i'm being deployed in few hours there so will be busy. I'll stop posting smaller village evacuation stuff etc... but i'll try to post for major stuff (Major town evacuated, casualties etc...)

Train circulation stopped at the south of Bordeaux

www.ici.fr

DIRECT - Incendies : 55.000 nouvelles évacuations en Gironde, la circulation des trains interrompue au sud de Bordeaux - ICI

Les incendies font rage ce dimanche encore en Gironde, dans les Landes, dans le Var et en Corse. Plus de 220.000 personnes ont été contraintes de quitter leur domicile ou lieu de vacances depuis mercredi en Gironde. Suivez la situation en direct avec ICI.
www.ici.fr www.ici.fr
 
( currently deployed and posting during the few rest we have, won't be able to provide full translation)

Situation report from the regional authorities, fire still ongoing, 2500 firefighters on site with over a thousand of military troops.


 
And here is my personal report :

we got deployed the whole day Marcheprime and Le Porge villages. situation is really really bad. Le Porge village is mostly destroyed, we are defending Marcheprime, but fire is everywhere, my lieutenant has 20 years of firefighting experience and never saw anything like that.


we are having heavy support from farmers ( locals or from nearby province coming to help), but they are suffering material and human casualties ( wounds, no fatalities for now)


we are having half an hour of rest before continuing the fight. Good luck to everyone fighting that fire, it's a war here, we are holding strong
 
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Onoya said:
And here is my personal report :

we got deployed the whole day Marcheprime and Le Proge villages. situation is really really bad. Le Proge village is mostly destroyed, we are defending Marcheprime, but fire is everywhere, my lieutenant has 20 years of firefighting experience and never saw anything like that.


we are having heavy support from farmers ( locals or from nearby province coming to help), but they are suffering material and human casualties ( wounds, no fatalities for now)


we are having half an hour of rest before continuing the fight. Good luck to everyone fighting that fire, it's a war here, we are holding strong
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Gods speed. 🫡 Please stay safe and when you have time please report what you hear & see. But your safy and mental health come first. Take care sir. I know what it is like. Live in Florida and report in durring hurricanes as I stay instead of evacuate. But never endangered myself or my mental well being to report in here. You and your family/neighbors come first in any emergency!
 
NuclearID said:
Gods speed. 🫡 Please stay safe and when you have time please report what you hear & see. But your safy and mental health come first. Take care sir. I know what it is like. Live in Florida and report in durring hurricanes as I stay instead of evacuate. But never endangered myself or my mental well being to report in here. You and your family/neighbors come first in any emergency!
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Can't really stay safe, I'm a firefighter and enlisted especially to help in situation like that. Hopefully my baguette ration will keep us strong and sharp! Thx for the good words mate, will bring us good mood, we are attacking again in 10 minutes!
 
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