Fires raged in southwestern France yesterday, Tuesday, destroying 16 homes, burning 60,000 acres and forcing nearly 6,000 people to flee the region, which was already hit last month by huge fires.
France, like the rest of Europe, is dealing with heat waves and drought that have caused many fires in the past two months.
“The fire is spreading and has extended into the Landes department,” local authorities in the wine-producing region of Gironde said in a statement, adding that 500 firefighters had been mobilized.
The Gironde department in southwestern France was hit in July by two wildfires that destroyed more than 20,000 hectares of forest and displaced nearly 40,000 people.
Fires were also raging in other parts of the country yesterday, Tuesday, one in the southern departments of Luzerne and Aveyron, where almost 6,000 hectares have already burned and Interior Minister Géral Darmanen is due to go later today.
Another fire has broken out in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France, where 6,500 hectares have burned and 5,000 are threatened, according to local authorities.
SOURCE: AMPE
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