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Wildfires continued to put pressure on emergency services across Europe, with Greece, France and Spain all battling major outbreaks.
But the wildfire in the Gironde region of south-west France has been “contained”, the French interior minister Laurent Nuñez said. The “megafire”, as it has become known in France, that ravaged 42,000 hectares (about 103,800 acres) of land “is no longer spreading”, Nuñez announced this morning, according to the French newspaper Le Monde.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/aug/01/ukraine-russia-zelenskyy-spain-france-wildfires-climate-heatwave-ceuta-morocco
Author : Taz Ali
Publish date : 2026-08-01 10:36:00
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