Nearly 98,000 hectares burned in France, a 'historic record' says government

The threat posed by a wildfire raging in the southwestern French department of Gironde «remains very serious,» the top regional official, Sophie Brocas, said Saturday.»The threat remains very serious. We are still facing a grave situation,» she said, adding however that the blaze has lost «some of its intensity thanks to lower temperatures and increased humidity.»

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