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French PM says massive fires ‘under control’ after week-long flare up
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A firefighting helicopter releases water over a wildfire near Correns, southeastern France, August 1, 2026. (Clement Mahoudeau/Pool Photo via AP)
PARIS, France — The wildfires that have ravaged France are “today under control,” Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu says, more than a week after the largest wildfire since 1949 flared up.
“Overall, the fires are now under control in our country” and, in Gironde, in the southwest, “we have returned to a more stable situation,” he says in an interview with the La Tribune Dimanche weekly.
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