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Added on the 13/09/2022 14:48:07 - Copyright : Euronews EN
New wildfires raging in southwestern France have torn through over 1,000 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of residents amid record temperatures for September.
France scrambled more water-bombing planes and hundreds more firefighters to combat spreading wildfires that were being fed Monday by hot swirling winds from a searing heat wave broiling much of Europe. FRANCE 24's Sophie Lamotte reports from Arcachon, France.
Italian firefighters continued to battle blazes in Sicily as temperatures reached what may possibly be a record high in Europe.The region's agriculture-meteorological information service (SIAS) reported that the temperature rose to 48.8 degrees Celsius on Wednesday afternoon.
Forest fires have broken out in Russia's Chelyabinsk region near Kazakhstan and in north-eastern Siberia.
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