Macron mobilizes army to reinforce fight against wildfires

Lège-Cap-Ferret - 24 July 2026: President Emmanuel Macron has called on the French armed forces to provide maximum support to civil protection services in the fight against severe wildfires in southwestern France. According to sources close to him, the president was responding to the further deterioration of the situation in Gironde and the Landes department, where the fires triggered numerous evacuations.At the center of the crisis is a fire that broke out on Wednesday near Saumos, north of the Bassin d'Arcachon. On Friday, the prefecture ordered the precautionary evacuation of ...