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Added on the 12/08/2017 10:56:59 - Copyright : AFP EN
Firefighters continued to tackle two fires in Corsica, France Saturday morning, which had already caused the evacuation of a thousand people.IMAGES of fire during the night from Friday to Saturday
Des Canadair larguent de l'eau sur le feu de forêt à La-Teste-de-Buch, en Gironde. Deux incendies ravagent la région depuis sept jours et ont brûlé 14.000 hectares de végétation. IMAGES
The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin pays tribute to "the firefighters, the military, the elected representatives, the police and the gendarmes who are fighting" against the forest fires in Gironde. The deputies in the National Assembly rise to applaud. SOUNDBITE
Firefighters tackle a blaze in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Nine people are reportedly injured, though not seriously, according to the fire brigade. IMAGES
Firefighters resume the search for possible other victims in the rubble of the buildings which burned in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, in the eastern Pyrenees region of southern France, killing eight people. They also secure the site. IMAGES
Firefighters are hard at work in Vidauban, near the glitzy Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez, trying to contain France's worst wildfire of the summer, which has left two dead and forced thousands of residents and tourists to flee. IMAGES