France: Two Hundred and Fifty Fires Broke Out in Twenty-Four Hours
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The beginning of summer is marked, in hexagonal France and Spain, by a severe drought and fire departures well above average.
On the move near the fire in the Fontainebleau forest, Laurent Nuñez reported that 32,000 hectares had already been covered by flames since the beginning of the year.
The year 2026 already beats sad records. More than 32,000 hectares have been "trapped" by fires since the beginning of the year in France, that is more than during "the whole season 2025" of fires, said on Monday the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez.
Some 32,000 hectares have been burned by fire in France since the beginning of the year, more than during the entire 2025 fire season, according to French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez. (France 2 report)
Everywhere in the country, relief must fight the flames: Pyrénées-Orientales, Lot-et-Garonne, Savoie, but also more northern sectors, such as Brittany.
Some 32,000 hectares were covered by fire in France. On Sunday, 12 July, 250 fire starts were recorded throughout the territory and Creation suffers.
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