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France races to contain fires before new heatwave

France races to contain fires before new heatwave
France 24 Tuesday 28 July 2026, 01:35 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. France races to contain fires before new heatwave Issued on: Share President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said one forest fire in southwest France had been "contained" even as another, much bigger one near Bordeaux continued to rage, and western Europe braced for new heatwaves this week.
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