“There are not enough firefighters in all of France”: in the Gironde, flames destroyed 42,000 hectares of forest

“It lives its own life – absolutely unpredictable. It feeds itself and spreads in all directions. This fire is very difficult to control,” the minister said.

“It’s impossible to put a fire truck every 100 or 300 meters. We don’t have enough firefighters and not enough equipment for this. I think there aren’t enough of them in all of France,” the BBC quotes the president of the Gironde department, Jean-Luc Gleizes.

The damage caused to the animal world is also enormous. “The losses are simply enormous. It is too early to give an exact estimate, but they will be simply catastrophic,” said Environment Minister Monique Barbut.

On the evening of July 27, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the disaster zone. He holds meetings with firefighters and receives a situation report.