‘It was hell’: French communities are on the front lines of Europe’s new wildfires
The flames came quick and strong. Pushed by westerly winds, they’d already devastated Saumos, France, 14 kilometres away, and in the early morning hours of last Friday, were heading, like a match to gunpowder, through an exceptionally dry forest of pines, in an exceptionally hot summer, toward Le Porge. When Stéphanie Dhont looked outside her … Read more