Marcheprime, France, July 26, 2026 (AFP) - 'Fire calling the shots': France's blaze pushes crews to the brink

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2026-07-26

Plumes of smoke rose above a vast sea of pine trees outside Bordeaux as firefighters in gleaming helmets rushed to douse emerging flames before they could spread. "It's intense, titanic," said Florian Lointier of the Paris Fire Brigade, an army unit dispatched to southwest France to help exhausted crews tackle the huge wildfire. More than 5,000 firefighters, military personnel, police officers and volunteers have been battling the ferocious blaze......

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