'We are living through an exceptionally harsh (summer) season,' French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday. The number of French forests burnt in fires this year is already triple those destroyed in 2020, Macron said.
This photo provided by the fire brigade of the Gironde region shows firefighters battling a wildfire on Thursday near Landiras, in southwestern France.
"We are living through an exceptionally harsh season," French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday during a visit to the government crisis management center at the Interior Ministry in Paris. The number of French forests burnt in fires this year is already triple those destroyed in 2020, Macron said.Several hundred firefighters struggled Friday to contain two wildfires in the Bordeaux region of southwest France.
Meanwhile, Portuguese authorities said a July national high of 47 degrees Celsius was registered in the northern town of Pinhao on Wednesday, the hottest day of the year so far. The government said Friday that 17 fires across Spain kept firefighters busy. In northeastern Catalonia, authorities restricted access to several mountain areas to avoid possible fires.
Seville became the first city in the world to take part in a pilot project that names and categorizes heat waves in an effort to raise awareness of the health hazards caused by extreme heat and the precautions citizens should take.
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