The senior official is a regular on crisis situations. After having managed to manage the dismantling of the “jungle”, in Calais, she faced fires in Gironde.
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Fabienne Buccio and Marc Vermeulen did not leave each other for twelve days and twelve nights. Well almost. At the bedside of the Megafeux de Landiras and La Teste-de-Buch, the boss of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of the Gironde often slept in his car. Fabienne Buccio, the very methodical prefect of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, was still shying home before leaving on the field.
They did not communicate on the presence of an oil site classified Seveso near the Teste-de-Buch, but both were constantly thought about it … On July 25, they announced together that the two fires that had started on the 12th were finally “fixed” and that the 37,000 people evacuated could go home. On Franceinfo, the exhausted prefect, had sobs in the voice. Fabienne Buccio said her relief of having avoided the drama.
In the general opinion, she led this master’s operation. We only deplore 25 light wounded in firefighters and very little material damage. There remains a completely charred moor, 20,800 hectares of forest whitewashed by ash. And then memories. “With Marc Vermeulen, we are now linked by this adventure, confides the representative of the State. I will never forget the night of July 19 to 20, at the peak of the heat wave, when the hydrometry rate did not reach The 10 % and that the blaze, in Landiras, was unleashed like never before to advance at 2 kilometers to the Pilat dune. “
spotted by Jacques Chirac
At 62, the prefect is a specialist in high -risk missions. Petite-daughter of Italian immigrant, born in Gap of a painter in building and a mother of cleaning woman, she grew up in a modest and Catholic environment. “She has kept a simple, easy relationship with people,” observes an old acquaintance.
After her baccalaureate, she left for Grenoble for a DUT before passing the competition of the Regional Institute of Administration of Lyon, thanks to a scholarship. Claimed feminist, admirer of Colette, this mother of two thirty -something children, married to a professor of civil engineering, called her daughter Claudine, named after the heroine of the writer.
It is Jacques Chirac who notices it, after the 1999 storm, while she occupies the post of second-class sub-prefect in Corrèze. “It was won over by its pragmatism, its effectiveness,” recalls Frédéric Salat-Baroux, former secretary general of the Elysée.
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