Race against time to contain wildfires in France and Spain – The Latest

与法国和西班牙森林大火赛跑,争取时间控制火势——最新进展

Today in Focus

2026-07-27

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Firefighters in France and Spain are facing another day battling wildfires that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated, with another heatwave expected to hit this week. French authorities have said this year’s wildfires, particularly the Gironde fire near the south-western city of Bordeaux, are ‘completely exceptional’. Lucy Hough speaks to Europe environment correspondent Ajit Niranjan – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • Entering the era of fires that we cannot extinguish.

  • If you have a really wet winter followed by a very hot and dry summer,

  • then you have huge, huge amounts of fuel that can be burned.

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  • From the Guardians today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Half.

  • Wildfires are raging across France and Spain.

  • Ajit Naranjan, you're our Europe environment correspondent.

  • You've been covering this for us.

  • Let's start with France, where the situation is particularly grave in the area around Bordeaux.

  • Give us a sense of the scale of the wildfires that we're seeing and the impact on the city.