Fires in Gironde: in the Arcachon basin, holidays turn into a nightmare

The coming night promised to be delicate. Already a week that the Gironde is burning, in La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras. Every day is feared. But the dantesque conditions of this Monday, July 18, with temperatures above 40 degrees, gusts of wind at more than 50 km / h and a humidity rate below 10%, promised “a black day”, as announced in Villandraut checkpoint from Sunday evening.