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France on high alert as ongoing heatwave fuels wildfire and pollution risks

The national weather authority has placed multiple departments on high heat alert, while officials warn of worsening air ...

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 ...

1,400 keep watch on France wildfire

PARIS -- About 1,400 firefighters were deployed Saturday in France's southern Aude region to prevent the country's largest ...

France on alert after containing worst wildfire in decades amid soaring heat

Officials warn the fire could reignite amid a forecasted heatwave, with 1,000 people still unable to return home and over ...

Deadly wildfires lead to evacuations in Greece, France, Spain and Italy

Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent, with temperatures increasing at twice speed of global average since the ...
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Satellites watch France's largest wildfire in 75 years burn an area larger than Paris

Satellite images revealed the scope of destruction in the south of France where an area larger than the country's capital ...

France’s biggest wildfire of the summer has eclipsed the size of Paris and is still spreading

Authorities say France’s biggest wildfire this summer is spreading quickly in a Mediterranean region near the Spanish border ...
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Map: See the full extent of France’s massive Aude wildfire

The wildfire currently raging in the Aude department has become the largest in France for more than half a century, with at ...