Tag: fires
Do anti-Covid masks protect against toxic fumes from fires?
Studies establish a link between serious forms of Covid-19 and forest fires, American experts warn: simple fabric masks are not enough to protect against toxic fumes. What masks to use?…
Fires: the threat is increasing on Seveso classified sites
Three years after the fire at the Lubrizol chemical plant in Rouen and more than twenty years after the AZF explosion in Toulouse, French industrial sites are facing a new…
After the extreme heat – fires are raging around London
The UK has recorded the highest temperature ever measured in the country at 40.3 degrees in Coningsby in the east of England on Tuesday. At London Heathrow Airport, a temperature…
Fires in Gironde: the mayor of La Teste-de-Buch salutes “the exceptional solidarity of the basin”
The two fires that have been ravaging the Gironde for a week were still not fixed on Tuesday morning. Operations are made difficult on site because of the scorching weather…
Exposure to smoke from forest fires: what effects on health?
News Published on 07/18/2022 at 9:19 p.m. Updated 07/18/2022 at 9:19 p.m. Reading 2 mins. in collaboration with Liath Guetta (pulmonologist) Eye irritation, coughing fit, runny nose… Exposure to smoke…
Gironde: why do firefighters have so much trouble putting out fires?
How small man seems in front of these thirty meter high megafires, circulating from tree to tree at breakneck speed. And how difficult it is for the 1,700 firefighters, the…
17,000 hectares burned, images and maps of the fires
GIRONDE FIRES. The fires are still not fixed in Gironde this Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Between Landiras and La Teste-de-Buch nearly 17,000 hectares went up in smoke. Despite the drop…
Massive fires in Gironde in pictures
It’s the commotion in France to fight the fires favored by climate change this summer. In total, at 18 July, the two fires still in progress in Gironde have already…
Gironde: firefighters’ tactics to fight extraordinary fires in the Landes forest
In Gironde, in the north of the Landes forest, the situation is getting tenser from hour to hour. Minute by minute, even. Of the “powerful and changing winds blow in…
Fires: in Fontainebleau too, we fear the ravages of fire
A background of carbonized air completes the blackened landscape from which stand out hundreds of scarlet green ferns already ten centimeters high. A fire ravaged at the beginning of June…