traveling in the department of Gironde, struck by the resumption of the July fire, the Prime Minister detailed a panel of measures provided for by her government.
Le Monde
“The whole government is mobilized” against forest fires, said Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, when she traveled to Gironde, Thursday, August 11. In the company of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the Prime Minister went to Hostens, to see the efforts of the fire soldiers against the fire which has already ravaged more than 6,800 hectares of vegetation. The firefighters continue their fight against a resumption of fire from the gigantic fire of Landiras, which had burned 14,000 hectares in July.
“We are in an emergency today, but I can assure you that we are strengthening our means, said M bounds before journalists. We want to act on All fronts, to fight even better in the future and prepare for events which we know very well that they are linked to climate change, with this heat wave that we have lived in our country for several weeks, with this exceptional drought This year. “
“We have to continue more than ever to fight against climate change and that we also continue, in the context of ecological planning (…), to adapt to this climatic disruption”, continued the Prime Minister, who recalled that A new national plan to adapt to climate change must be put in consultation at the start of the school year. It goes, she stressed, of the “preparation of the future”.
M me terminal also assured that it was necessary to “act first to replant the forest”. “The President of the Republic had announced a national replanting project, naturally we work there. The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry is mobilized on this issue,” she said.
Civil security strengthening
a shorter term, beyond emergency measures -as having brought the number of water bomber helicopters available, and eleven at the end of the week -, the Prime Minister said they wanted to “continue to work on strengthening civil security means”. “This will notably be the case in the programming law that the Minister of the Interior will present at the start of the school year, with planning on the five-year term,” she said, “naturally in connection with local authorities”, which are At the forefront of the fight against fires.
The tenant of Matignon praised “local elected officials very committed to this fight against fire”. In the last hours of the discussion of the amending finance bill, at the beginning of August, parliamentarians also adopted the release of 5 million euros for the financing of firefighters in the departments confronted with the lights of forest. To the world, the president of the Assembly of the Departments of France, François Sauvadet, estimated that, due to the “new risks” represented by the multiplication of fires, “the functioning of the departmental fire and rescue services [was ] to review “.