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TOPSHOT - This photograph taken in Pyla sur Mer, on July 18, 2022 shows a firefighter aircraft flying near the smoke rising from the forest fire in La Teste-de-Buch, seen from the 5 stars hotel, La Corniche, in front of the Pilat dune. - In scorching heat, with more than 40°C, some 8,000 people had to leave - in a "preventive manner" according to the prefecture - the Miquelots and Pyla-sur-Mer, districts of the municipality of La Teste-de-Buch, a town of 28,000 inhabitants where 4,300 hectares of forest went up in smoke. (Photo by THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/THIBAUD MORITZ)