Firefighter 'morale remains high' despite heatwave coming to France's blazing southwest

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Vue aérienne d'un incendie dans un champ près d'Arès, en Gironde, le 28 juillet 2026, dans le sud-ouest de la France. © Baz Ratner, AFP 02:22 Issued on: 29/07/2026 - 14:30Modified: 29/07/2026 - 14:35 In the southwest of France, temperatures are expected to go over 40 degree celsius just as firefighters have managed to stabilise the mass blazes in the forests of the Gironde region. They are expecting the heatwave to set fires going again but 'morale remains high', says FRANCE 24's Carys Garland, as firefighters first and foremost committed to protecting local communities. Keywords for this article