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Host — Detailed Hydrogen Bomb More than 1,000 aircraft-backed firefighters battled a "monster" bushfire near France's wine-growing capital Bordeaux on Thursday, and the ferocious temperatures seen by the weekend were unlikely to persist. There was not.
The Gironde fire is he one of the largest wildfires in France. The fires displaced thousands of people from their homes, destroyed more than a dozen buildings and burned more than 6,800 hectares of forest.
"It's a demon, it's a monster," Gregory Arione of the French firefighters' association FNSPF told his RTL radio.
The Gironde wildfires were one of many that raged across Europe this summer. This was caused by a heat wave that devoured the continent and brought record temperatures.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne was scheduled to visit the region later.
Local temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday and remain high through Saturday, officials warned.
The Gironde River suffered massive wildfires in his July, destroying more than 20,000 hectares of forest and temporarily displacing some 40,000 people from their homes.
"This is both economically and environmentally disastrous," Jean-Louis Dartiel, the mayor of Hostane, a small town near the fire, told Radio Classic. "This region is utterly destroyed. We are heartbroken and exhausted."
France has been hit by the worst drought on record, and this week his 4 A second heat wave sweeps across the country.
More than 57,200 hectares have burned in France so far this year, almost six times the annual average from 2006 to 2021, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System. (Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Writing by Richard Lough; Editing by Jason Neely and Andrew Heavens)
