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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 ...
Some vineyards act as firebreaks as France wildfire contained
Some vineyards acted as natural firebreaks, leaving a surreal patchwork of scorched hills and untouched green vines. (AP ...
Two dead, thousands evacuated in Greece, France, Spain and Italy
A t least one person has been left dead by wildfires spreading across Greece, with 16,000 acres destroyed. A man has died in ...
France seeks to 'stabilise' wildfire raging in south
French firefighters said Thursday they were hoping to halt the country's biggest wildfire this summer that has left one ...
Major fire in southern France largely extinguished
Firefighters have brought under control most of the largest wildfire to hit France in decades, though efforts continue in ...
Major French wildfire is unlikely to be under control until late on Sunday
PARIS - A wildfire in the southern French prefecture of Aude is not expected to be under control until late on Sunday, the ...
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 ...