The head of state has gone to support firefighters who have been facing two very important fires for several days. He promised a “national project” to replant the forest, without making new announcements in the fight against greenhouse gas emissions.
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Emmanuel Macron had promised it shortly before his victory. “This five-year term will be ecological or will not be,” he launched during his meeting in Marseille on April 16. Three months later, after a presidential campaign where the environment was cruelly absent from the debates, the climate urgency remembered the Head of State. Brutally, by the heat wave that fell on the country for several days, and dramatically, by the “megaficals” who ignited the country, in particular in Gironde where some 20,600 hectares of pines burned in the space of one week. Wednesday, July 20, when the fire seemed to be under control, the president went to the scene, in Teste-de-Buche, in the Arcachon basin not far from the famous Les Flots Bleus now reduced in ashes, then in Langon, at the command post of the fire in Landiras.
greeting the “human chain” which has deployed to “beat the beast that is fire”, the head of state first confused in thanks, with the firefighters, “absolute hero” that he welcomed one by one, with civil security personnel, too, elected officials and all the volunteers mobilized to help the 36,000 people evacuated and face the flames “of one of the largest lights Our story, “he described. “I want to tell you here the solidarity of the nation and my immense pride (…) to see this force of soul in our elected officials, among our compatriots, among our firefighters, among those who are mobilized”, He listed announcing the requisition of two civil helicopters to help the work of firefighters.
After the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron faces here, once again, the unpublished and the tragic. Describing the situation, the general controller Marc Vermeulen, corps chief of the Gironde firefighters, did not fail to share his stupor. After July 14, when the temperatures climbed to more than 40 ° C, the twenty-year-old pine trunks “exploded under the effect of heat,” he said, recalling having a dreaded time ” Losing two guys “.
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This exceptional situation will have made Emmanuel Macron more “proud” of his compatriots. “Despite this, there are no victims,” he said. Admittedly a few houses, campsites, a restaurant … will have been striped from the map, but with regard to the disaster at work, the disaster seems to have been contained. And it is a message of optimism and voluntarism that the prompt head of state wanted to send, while the Canadair still agreed in the sky, to evoke “the day after”.
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