Firefighters 'exhausted' as Germany struggles with huge wildfires

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2025-07-06

Berlin (dpa) - Firefighters in Germany were struggling to gain control of blazes in several forested areas on Sunday, as the wildfire season continued to wreak havoc on parts of the country's east, amid similar disasters in other parts in Europe. When one smouldering area is finally extinguished, the wind lights up the next one just a few metres away, said a spokesman for the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district office in the state of Thuringia. Firefigh......

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