Faced with fires in Gironde, the precious reinforcement of foreign firefighters: “We are a big family”

It is 3:45 p.m. this Friday when a fire breaks out in Hostens (Gironde). On the side of the road, the flames, initially timid, begin to climb along the dry vegetation. A French fire truck, back at the base, will take a few minutes to put out this peat fire. On the other side of the departmental road, in the Rouquet and Le Frayot districts, it is Romanian colleagues who are securing a home while the ground is exhaling fatal smoke from all sides.