Europe’s Wildfire Crisis Eases in West as Danger Shifts East to Greece
Authorities said favourable overnight conditions helped stabilise the blaze after it destroyed at least 200 homes and killed two firemen.
- On Saturday, firefighters held a vast wildfire in southwestern France inside its perimeter, allowing about 198,000 people to return home after what may have been the country's largest peacetime evacuation.
- The Gironde fire has ravaged 42,000 hectares of pine forest, burning 420 square kilometers west of Bordeaux—an area four times the size of Paris—as locals and officials come to terms with the damage.
- Active sectors and buried hot spots persist within the perimeter, with crews still facing about 240 kilometers of fire edges where heat can remain buried underground and erupt again.
- A separate blaze in the southeastern Var region flared up, forcing the evacuation of 2,500 people and requiring 1,300 firefighters to protect villages roughly 80 kilometers northeast of Marseille.
- Greece's fire service fought 73 blazes on Friday, and hundreds of firefighters continued protecting the resort of Porto Germeno on Saturday as gale-force winds forced 300 people to evacuate by sea.
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Firefighters brought a massive wildfire in southwestern France under control on Saturday, allowing some 198,000 people to return home after what may have been the largest peacetime evacuation in the world.
Europe's wildfire crisis shifts as some 200,000 French return but new blazes force thousands to flee
Firefighters held a vast wildfire inside its perimeter in southwestern France on Saturday, allowing about 198,000 people to return home after what may have been the country's largest peacetime evacuation, even as renewed fires forced thousands from their homes elsewhere in France and Greece.
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