Firefighters were battling several wildfires fanned by strong winds in southern France on Thursday, as the country grappled with parched conditionsfollowing Europe’s recent heatwave.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said three blazes, two of which broke out on the western edge of the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, had scorched a combined area of 1,210 hectares (12,100,000 square meters).
The World Meteorological Organization last week warned that the record temperatures that
