French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260726-french-firefighters-face-pyrocumulonimbus-for-first-time

22•saaaaaam•58m ago

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verzali•50m ago

The situation in Bordeaux right now feels close to apocalyptic. I left yesterday. Two hundred thousand people are evacuated, hundreds of homes destroyed, and the fire about 10 miles from the edge of the city.

toomuchtodo•23m ago

What resources would you recommend to follow this event as it continues?

msk-lywenn•15m ago

It’s in French but this crowd sourced website updates quite quickly : https://feuxdeforet.fr/gironde-33/saumos-22-07-2026-4367/

rich_sasha•29m ago

Good job climate change really, definitely, is a global conspiracy and completely untrue.

Because if it weren't, the current trend would be pretty amazing horrifyingly awful.

mingus88•19m ago

Everyone needs to remember those who were deniers and followers of them

Never let them live this down

jauntywundrkind•15m ago

I think part of why the right keeps getting more brazen, more anti-reality, anti-science, anti-education, anti-school, anti-democracy is that so many of their numbers are coming due. Disinformation isn't working, as the problems mount, so animosity/overdrama/anger and anti-information are the routes left to them now, as Titanic walls of flame engulf the world in their wake.

Bush II dismantled NASA's mission statement to monitor the world, for example. This is not a new foe, and I have not forgotten. https://www.ucs.org/resources/nasa-earth-removed-mission-sta...

edhelas•10m ago

https://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/f/532005

Picture from the french "moderate" right journal Le Figaro, mai 2026.

"investigation into environmental alarmists"

dgellow•4m ago

The president of the United States, and pretty much all his cult-members/followers

superkuh•19m ago

There's a good chance that conflagrations during WWII generated such clouds. There are well established incidents of such in Germany (and Japan) (ref: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/91/9/2010bam... , Hamburg, Dresden, etc) but nothing for certain in France. The British attacks on Royan which destroyed 85% of it with high explosive and napalam would be the most likely site.

vouaobrasil•14m ago

And at the same time, on the other side of the world, people are celebrating how much more productive they are with AI, never mind the energy taken up by datacenters both directly and indirectly (encouraging more consumerism and more CO2 output). It's exceptionally callous.

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