Wildfires: Var department once again facing the flames

Wildfires are once again tearing through France's Var department, according to Euronews. Fanned by the mistral wind and extreme heat, the blaze burned through one thousand hectares in just six hours, forcing the evacuation of twenty-five hundred people near the Gros Bessillon massif. The village of Correns is now completely cut off.

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