Two French firefighters die tackling blaze near Bordeaux airport

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The blaze close to the parking lots at Bordeaux-Mérignac airport is said to have originated from a brush fire.

A fig of flights scheduled to get astatine the airdrome person been delayed.

Nuñez reported the 2 deaths during a question-and-answer league astatine the French parliament connected Tuesday.

The curate said helium would question to Gironde "as soon arsenic possible" to oversee the firefighting efforts.

Gironde is 1 of respective French departments ravaged by wildfires successful caller days, owed to a bid of antithetic prolonged heatwaves.

A caller blaze is reported to person besides breached retired connected Tuesday successful the south-eastern Var department.

France has registered astir 11,000 fires since the opening of the year, with President Emmanuel Macron saying past week that determination had not been truthful galore blazes successful the state since World War Two.

Tuesday's outer information from the European Forest Fire Information System (Effis) shows that much than 42,000 hectares (103,784 acres) burned successful France betwixt January and mid-July, surpassing the erstwhile grounds acceptable successful 2022.

Climate alteration is driving up temperatures astir the world, and Europe is the fastest warming continent, heating up doubly arsenic accelerated arsenic the planetary average, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

This is causing accrued summertime heatwaves, greater unit connected Europe's h2o supply, and much aggravated wildfires.

The record-breaking temperatures crossed Europe this summertime person led to large wildfires, most notably successful Spain wherever astatine slightest 13 radical person been killed.

Some 29,000 hectares of onshore person been destroyed by a monolithic wildfire northbound of the Spanish superior Madrid.