“It’s heartbreaking to see such a beautiful thing go up in smoke and we’re powerless,” a farmer in France says. 'You take these big trucks and put it out and it comes back.”
that have spread to an area twice the size of Paris as blazes across the continent continued to rage.
In the country's wine region of Bordeaux, more than 50,000 acres of land have been destroyed, the local authority for the Gironde Department said in aIt added that 36,750 people had been evacuated from the region, although 12,000 had since been allowed to return. An additional 4,000 would be allowed to return to their homes on Saturday, the statement said.
“We rally, we try to help as much as we can. We have the equipment,” one farmer, Kevin Mouragnon, told NBC News Thursday in a cordoned-off area in the Hostens commune.Philippe Lopez / Pool/AFP via Getty Images In Spain, some of the 11,000 people who evacuated because of the fires began to return home, and a major highway in the north-western Zamora province reopened after two days.
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