France puts out largest wildfire since 1949
- A wildfire that scorched 42,000 hectares in southwest France has finally been declared extinguished, more than two months after the country's largest blaze since 1949 broke out, authorities said Monday.
- The fire erupted in July near the village of Saumos in the Gironde region and forced the evacuation of around 224,000 people as it threatened both the tourist peninsula of Cap-Ferret and the outskirts of Bordeaux.
- "The Saumos forest fire, which burned 42,000 hectares this summer, including 37,296 hectares destroyed, is now extinguished," state services wrote in a statement, adding no deaths had
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- A wildfire that scorched 42,000 hectares in southwest France has finally been declared extinguished, more than two months after the country's largest blaze since 1949 broke out, authorities said Monday.
- The fire erupted in July near the village of Saumos in the Gironde region and forced the evacuation of around 224,000 people as it threatened both the tourist peninsula of Cap-Ferret and the outskirts of Bordeaux.
- "The Saumos forest fire, which burned 42,000 hectares this summer, including 37,296 hectares destroyed, is now extinguished," state services wrote in a statement, adding no deaths had
Sources: France 24