‘WE STARED INTO AN ABYSS’: THE MEN AND WOMEN BATTLING TO TAME FRANCE’S MEGAFIRE

Exhausted firefighters, foresters and volunteers wage ‘war of attrition’ against blaze that forced 200,000 people from their homes By noon it is time for a break. The temperature is about 35C, the smell of ash, cinders and burnt wood hang acrid in the air.

Climate crisis | The Guardian reports that exhausted firefighters, foresters and volunteers wage ‘war of attrition’ against blaze that forced 200,000 people from their homes By noon it is time for a break.

The report adds: The temperature is about 35C, the smell of ash, cinders and burnt wood hang acrid in the air.

At tables laid out in the shrinking shade on the desiccated grass and sand outside the sports centre in Le Porge, 200 men and a handful of women have gathered.

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