Fires Destroy 113,800 Acres Of French Forest
PARIS, Aug, 17.
Ten radio-equipped cars, 13 water tanks lorries, pumps and other equipment have left Paris with squads of firemen and engineers to fight forest fires sweeping through South-West France. At least 14 houses and one chateau were burned to the ground in a fire in the Landes pine forest which destroyed about 118,800 acres of trees. A new forest fire only six miles from Bordeaux was reported today as firemen soldiers and civilian volunteers appeared to be checking the worst series of fires on record in South-West France. Firemen from Bordeaux and neighbouring towns and 150 soldiers were tackling the new blaze which was fanned by a strong wind. Fires had been put out in two of the three main areas of South-West France affected when the new alarm was given. Damage is already estimated at many hundreds of million francs and mass unemployment is feared in the ravaged areas.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23028, 19 August 1949, Page 5
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