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Added on the 14/08/2023 21:54:08 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Aerial images filmed from a helicopter flying over the ongoing fires in Gironde (south-west France), in the Landiras and Guillos areas, which have already ravaged 1,700 hectares of pine trees, forcing the evacuation of 6,000 campers. IMAGES
Farmers organise a blockade of the A62 motorway near Agen in south-west France. Protests continue across France, the day after a meeting with the government of new French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and as a meeting of European ministers for the sector begins. IMAGES
Emmanuel Macron and French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin arrive at the gendarmerie brigade in Damazan, in south-west France. A few minutes later, the French president left in a gendarmerie car. This afternoon, he will unveil the sites where 200 new fixed or mobile gendarmerie brigades will be set up by 2027. IMAGES
The European Commission announces that four aircraft from the EU's fire-fighting fleet have been sent to France, following a request for assistance from Paris. European Commission spokesperson, Miriam Garcia Ferrer, says that "in addition, fire-fighting teams from Germany, Poland, Austria and Romania are their way to support French first responders." SOUNDBITE
More than 1,000 people evacuated from an area threatened by a violent forest fire wake up in a gymnasium in Bormes-les-Mimosas, in the Var department of France. The facility had already welcomed "fire survivors" during the 2017 fires. The prefecture specifies that among the "thousands" of evacuees are holidaymakers from six campsites in the region. IMAGES