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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
 
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