{"id":65679,"date":"2026-08-15T22:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/65679\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:40:27","slug":"new-wildfire-spreads-in-south-western-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/65679\/","title":{"rendered":"New wildfire spreads in south-western France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Paris &#8211; A few weeks after wildfires devastated woodland in south-western France, a new blaze was on Saturday spreading rapidly near Luglon in the Landes region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire broke out on Thursday and has now engulfed around 1,600 hectares of forest and scrubland, according to the local prefecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around 650 people have been evacuated as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Luglon, located about 100 kilometres south-east of Arcachon, lies in the middle of a vast maritime pine forest. According to the local authorities, no houses have been affected by the flames so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around 550 firefighters were deployed with support from Canadair firefighting aircraft, as well as a Chinook CH-47D heavy-lift helicopter borrowed from Australia, the BFMTV broadcaster reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The twin-rotor Chinook can carry up to 11,300 litres of water, almost twice as much as the Canadair planes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the end of July, around 3,700 hectares of forest burned near Biscarrosse in the Landes region, and about 42,000 hectares near Saumos in the neighbouring Gironde region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Large fires broke out in other parts of the country during the heatwave and drought of recent weeks, especially down the Atlantic coastline, requiring evacuations of tens of thousands of tourists and residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris &#8211; A few weeks after wildfires devastated woodland in south-western France, a new blaze was on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,36245,31207],"class_list":["post-65679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-france","tag-landes-region","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}