Three planes that were set to take part in the Bastille Day military parade in Paris have been dispatched to the Atlantic coast to help fight two out-of-control fires that have already burned nearly 3,700 hecatres of pine forest.
The largest fire around the town of Landiras, about 40 kilometres south of Bordeaux, is stabilised, having burned 2,000 hectares of forest, though it is still not under control, according to the Gironde prefecture.
