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Europe: Raging wildfires scorch large swaths of the continent

Europe: Raging wildfires scorch large swaths of the continent
France 24 Friday 14 August 2026, 16:02 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. Europe: Raging wildfires scorch large swaths of the continent Europe Issued on: Share Firefighters across Europe battled multiple fires August 14 as a new wave of record-breaking heat baked a swath of the continent. The historic temperatures are linked to human-caused climate change, and are hitting countries better suited for long cold seasons and ill-equipped for such extreme heat, with limited air conditioning.
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