
While the government promises building permits in one month for fire victims, residents who lost everything in 2022 testify to the length of the process.
Faced with government announcements of reduced deadlines for rebuilding after the fires in Gironde, victims of 2022 testify to the administrative burden and share their experience.
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The 2022 fires in La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras destroyed many homes in Gironde, requiring long reconstruction procedures for the victims.
The Prime Minister brought out "heavy artillery" to deal with the consequences of the gigantic fires in Gironde and Landes this summer. Among the measures announced by Sébastien Lecornu, Monday August 17, during his trip to Gironde, building permits issued "generally within a month", or even "less than a month" for reconstruction "in equivalence". Some residents of Gironde have already experienced this period of reconstruction after the fires of La Teste-de-Buch and Landiras in 2022, like Corinne and Christophe Videaud whose house in Guillos was destroyed four years ago.
“It feels as if my feet had been sawn off. My feet always hurt a lot until my house was rebuilt,” confides Corinne Videaud. Precisely, in order to rebuild it, you have to contact the notary, the insurance company, but also try to find things among the ashes. "The worst of the worst is taking inventory of everything that was in each room. And then you say to yourself: 'Yes, I had that. Oh no, I don't have it anymore.' 'I had that, I don't have that anymore either.' And we take inventory of what we no longer have, in fact.” “Forty years of life,” says her husband, Christophe. “And I made an Excel file, it took me six months to do the inventory,” continues Corinne.
After this inventory, the couple remembers weeks of waiting that were much too long: "The appraisals, the requests for documents, etc. All this administrative paperwork. The expert was nice, but not fast enough for our liking. This inertia is unbearably slow because we are not at home. Finally, I felt uprooted."
“Keep hope and don’t give up”
Their building permit takes several months to be issued. So, when the Prime Minister announces a maximum month for the victims of this summer, they find it hard to believe it. "The minister will not be able to meet these deadlines, it is not possible. Given the number of houses and everything, do you take into account the files? I don't believe it. The examination of the files, etc. It's case by case. It's an announcement effect", they react in unison.
And even if the permits now take a little longer than the government promises to be issued, Corinne and Christophe Videaud assure the victims that their future house will surely be better than the old one. Theirs was covered 100% by insurance. “The positive today is that we were able to make a house that we would have liked to modify, that is to say the walls, turn the house around a little. Instead of having a 20 m2 living room, we have a 60 m2 living room today,” they emphasize.
Now they feel good in their new home, with the impression of having put the pieces back together. So, for the inhabitants of Porge, they have a message: "Let them keep hope and never give up. Don't give up on anything, nothing, even if it's difficult." Although the time can sometimes seem long, the Videauds ultimately had to wait two years between the fire and the arrival in their new home.

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