EXCLUSIVE – Jean-Luc Gleyze, who also chairs the departmental fire and rescue service (SDIS33), publishes with Xavier Fortinon, president of the Landes department, an open letter to the President of the Republic and calls for a review of the organization of the Civil security.
Mr. President of the Republic,
Since this Tuesday, July 12, the hot finger of climate change has come to rest on the largest western forest massif, one of the lungs of France. Nearly 20,000 hectares of forest have burned and are still burning in Gironde and at the gates of the Landes department. The Landes de Gascogne forest now lacks more of the area of the city of Paris. If this seems little in view of the total surface of the massif, we must not forget that there are still nearly a million hectares which threaten to be the prey of the flames. Our two departments are also very regularly subject to fire outbreaks, and we measure the fragility and vulnerability of this forest area on a daily basis.
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