Faced With Record Fires, France Skimps on Fire Crews

For thirty years, Patrice Hureaux has fought fires in his forest-covered corner of southwestern France. Every summer, he and his team work diligently to put out fires in the woods right as they start. Landes, where he lives and works, is one of the most wooded of France’s 101 local , with fully two-thirds of its territory covered in trees. He and his colleagues have their work cut out for them, but the vigilance is worth it.départements “It’s much easier to put out a fire when it starts than to…