Some 61 departments on orange heatwave vigilance, Tuesday July 7, 2026, and around sixty departments at “high risk of forest fires”: France is entering its third heatwave period of the year with figures that are dizzying. “The situation is very worrying,” government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said on franceinfo on Monday. To give a comparison, there are 11,000 hectares that burned in France today. It was just over 5,000 last year at the same time. This means that we are facing an extraordinary situation. » “We are very worried about the season, we are a month ahead of the start of the fires”, had already indicated, three days before, the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez.
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