The blaze<\/a> broke out on Sunday in the sprawling Fontainebleau, a former royal hunting estate now dotted with quiet villages about 60km (40 miles) southeast of the capital.<\/p>\nAs the region sweltered in its latest heatwave, the wildfire spread rapidly across the UNESCO biosphere reserve, disrupting rail and road traffic during a busy long holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
About 1,000 people in and around Fontainebleau were evacuated.<\/p>\n
The scale of the fire prompted the deployment of four Canadair aircraft along with two Dash planes and three water-bombing helicopters.<\/p>\n
By nightfall on Monday, about 600 firefighters remained mobilised and were taking turns to fight the flames on the ground, said the commander of the rescue operations, Jean-Marc Sicard.<\/p>\n
France is enduring a third heatwave in less than three months, with fires burning in several parts of the country over the past week.<\/p>\n
It is the latest episode of extreme weather,\u00a0which scientists say has become more frequent in recent decades due to human-driven climate change.<\/p>\n
The country recorded more than 2,000 excess deaths during the June heatwave and 300 during the high temperatures in late May, according to official figures.<\/p>\n
Since the start of the year, wildfires have scorched about 25,000 hectares (61,800 acres) of land in France, the director general of civil security, Julien Marion, said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Temperatures are likely to remain high through France\u2019s Bastille Day national holiday on Tuesday, according to the Meteo-France weather service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 14 Jul 202614 Jul 2026 France has been battling two wildfires that have scorched more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,2848,5660,295,3456,637,26097,150529,44,66],"class_list":["post-803309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-climate","tag-climate-crisis","tag-environment","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-gallery","tag-in-pictures","tag-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}