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France swelters under a heat wave as fire crews guard smoldering vineyards
A blistering heatwave gripped southwest France on Monday, sending thermometers soaring to 43 degrees Celsius in parts of the Charente and Aude ...
France’s largest wildfire in decades contained after devastating southern region and wine country
France's largest wildfire in decades has been contained after burning over 160 square kilometers in the south.
Massive French wildfire now contained, 16,000 hectares affected, local authorities say
Smoke rose over the Aude region and drone footage showed swathes of charred earth after the fire swept across an area 1.5 ...
Mapped: Wildfires in France and Spain as huge blazes break out in 40C European heatwave
Mediterranean countries are a growing wildfire hotspot, with scientists warning that climate change is driving increasingly ...
France wildfire rages across area fire bigger than Paris
French officials have called the large forest fire tearing through the south a 'catastrophe' as thousands flee a blaze larger ...
As blazes spread, French winemakers rue loss of 'fire break' vineyards
Local growers said hundreds of hectares of working vineyards had been destroyed while grapes from other plots risked being ...
France’s biggest wildfire in 75 years engulfs an area larger than Paris as an army of firefighters battle 17,000-hectare blaze
France grapples with a massive wildfire in the Aude region. The blaze, the largest since 1949, has consumed over 17,000 ...
France wildfire is 'catastrophe on an unprecedented scale', says PM
French Prime Minister François Bayrou says a huge, deadly wildfire sweeping through the south of France is a "catastrophe on ...