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Hydrate and protect yourself. In France, the most intense heat wave of the summer is looming with the arrival of a heat dome. The temperature will increase over the weekend to reach a peak in intensity early next week, Monday or more likely Tuesday. Thursday, the mercury has already reached 33 to 36 ° C in the plains of the Southwest, 34 to 37 ° C in the interior of Provence. Nineteen departments are on heatwave orange vigilance, this Friday, on a vast diagonal going from the Gers to the Doubs, extending to Savoie. On alert, the government has activated the national information platform Canicule info service, which can be reached on 0800 06 66 66.
Pre-entry day for the President of the French Republic. A few weeks after the nights of urban riots linked to the death of Nahel in Nanterre, Emmanuel Macron warned French youth against “chaos” and “disunity”, a few weeks after the urban riots, Thursday during his first back-to-school speech, on the occasion of the commemorations of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Bormes-les-Mimosas. The Head of State paid tribute to the young people who took part in the Provence landings, “ready to die for collective freedom”, before mentioning the French youth of 2023. “There is in our young people an appetite for freedom, a idealism that sometimes seeks itself. And to which we must respond. Otherwise, sometimes, this noble aspiration turns against itself and undermines the foundations of this nation of freedom, equality and fraternity initiated in 1789,” declared the President of the Republic. “Outside this common field, division and disunity prosper, which paves the way for chaos and injustice,” Macron warned.
More than 250 people, as well as 17 aircraft, mobilized against the flames. The fire which affects the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Canary archipelago, located off the west coast of Africa, has already ravaged more than 3,200 hectares over a perimeter of more than 30 kilometers. As it broke out on Tuesday evening, it is raging in a wooded area and ravines in the northeast part of the island. The government decreed Thursday morning the confinement of the locality of La Esperanza, in the municipality of Rosario, while a dozen small villages or hamlets in this tourist area were evacuated as a precaution. Some 3,000 people were evacuated, around 4,000 asked to stay in their homes to avoid the fumes.