He imagines 21,000 hectares of forest destroyed in Caen by fire: “It’s appalling!”
By Maxence Gorregues
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updated on 7 Aug 22 at 18:57
Because the scale of the disaster was such, he couldn’t imagine it. Whereas fire rages in Gironde since mid-July 2022, and elsewhere in France, a Resident of Caen (Calvados) sought to better understand what thousands of hectares of destroyed vegetation could possess, in terms of surface area. “21,000 hectares of forest gone up in smoke is asking a lot, but what does that represent? he wondered.
Overlay the surface to better understand
At the end of July, Brice Ledormeur then decided to take a map to see on what surface in the agglomeration of Caen, the equivalent of the forest devoured by the flames in Gironde could he ask. “And the result is scary!” he laments. This area represented for us the whole city of Caen, to which should be added Hérouville, Saint-Contest, Bretteville-sur-Odon, Ifs, Mondeville… It’s appalling! »
The equivalent of 18 times the city of Caen in 2022 in France
Sales manager in a business management consulting company, he then posted his montage on the social network Linkedin.com. People who subscribed to his account thanked him for this perspective.
Since the publication of his message, the fire has wreaked havoc in other areas of Gironde and France. In 2022, according to the Copernicus agency, 47,000 hectares of forest have already burned in France, the equivalent of 12% of the area of Calvados. 47,000 hectares is also 18 times… the city of Caen.
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