With their three children, Jérémy Frérot and Laure Manaudou reside in the Arcachon basin. Shootpix/ABACA
The flames of the La Teste-de-Buch fire reached the home of the singer and the swimmer as their three children were being shielded.
“We feared becoming drunk and passing out forever.” Laure Manaudou and Jérémy Frérot had to flee their home in La Teste-de-Buch, Gironde, immediately because the area has been engulfed in flames for more than a week. The 32-year-old singer from the area expresses his sorrow at witnessing the Arcachon basin, which he particularly enjoys, burn to the ground in the columns of the Parisian.
My parents and my grandma had never seen a fire here before that. We’re not accustomed to it, we have no idea how to handle it, and we assumed that it would only occur to others, therefore it makes me very unhappy “. Nevertheless, Jérémy Frérot, his wife, and their three children had to leave their burning home on the night of July 18 to July 19. “He claims that I witnessed the forest’s flames yesterday from the path leading to my home. That night, we had to leave since the smoke was too bad to tolerate. And to add: “It was coming into the house, making it difficult to sleep, for fear that we might get drunk and never wake up.”
The couple decided to “play it safe” and seek safety in Gujan-Mestras, a village a few kilometers away, before the mayor of La Teste-de-Buch ordered “all the area to evacuate.” “And since then it’s been burning, it’s been burning, and we still see these clouds of smoke in front of us”, continues Jérémy Frérot. The couple laments the demise of La Salie Sud, a restaurant in La Teste-de-Buch that they really appreciate, on each of their own Instagram profiles.
image from lauremanaudouoff’s Instagram
More than 20,000 hectares of woodland had burned since July 12, including 7,000 hectares in La Teste-de-Buch, if the Gironde flames had stopped spreading on Thursday. Five campsites, including the one that had served as the movie’s location, caught fire a short distance away, at the base of the Dune du Pilat. Fabien Onteniente and Franck Dubosc experience emotion while camping.