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European Wildfires Reveal a Hidden Danger: Buried Bombs and Mines From WWI and WWII
Wildfires have uncovered or detonated old ordnance in at least four countries, and Belgium’s bomb disposal service handles more than 3,000 calls a year.
The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II. The explosives now threaten crews fighting the fires. Some of the weapons…