The country was hit Saturday by a heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees in several regions … The victims, mostly, been trapped in their cars. A forest fire that suddenly redoubled in intensity resulted, according to the latest reports, at least 61 dead and sixty injured Saturday in the region of Leiria , in central Portugal , the government […]
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A major forest fire broke out on Wednesday 17th August at Saint-Pierre-sur-Orthe. A section of a forest of one hectare caught fire. A fire started on Wednesday 17th August at Saint-Pierre-sur-Orthe, at a place called the Aulnays. Dry Underbrush was hit. Firefighters who were quickly on site, took three hours to extinguish the fire. A still smouldering trunk […]
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Six hundred hectares have gone up in smoke since Friday with the Forest Fires in the Southwest of France. The President in the Var region earlier today, Monday called for everyone “to be vigilant everywhere in France” and launched a “call for common sense behaviour […] because it’s carelessness and stupidity that explains most often […]
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