Firefighters push to 'encircle' Belgian wildfire

Firefighters push to 'encircle' Belgian wildfire  euractiv.com

A destructive wildfire season is pushing American firefighting resources to their limits. Australia and New Zealand have sent their largest contingent ever to help out.

Belgian firefighters are working to contain the country’s largest wildfire in a century, which has burned about 3,000 hectares of the High Fens nature reserve.

The blaze charring peatland, pine trees and hiking trails grew over the weekend to half the size of Manhattan Some first pictures from this morning’s earthquakes in Granada are emerging on social media… Andalusian president Juanma Moreno urged residents to maintain “maximum caution” as more seismic movements and afters

Hundreds of firefighters, backed by water-bombing aircraft from several countries, have been deployed to try to contain and douse a historic forest fire that struck the High Fens nature reserve, located near the German border.

Hundreds of firefighters, backed by water-bombing aircraft from several countries, have been deployed to try to contain and douse a historic forest fire that struck the High Fens nature reserve, located near the German border.

High Fens nature reserve has seen Belgium’s largest wildfire in a century.

Europe has been swept by weeks of devastating wildfires fuelled by dry conditions and a historically hot summer, with France, Greece, Portugal and Spain also battling major fires.

Belgian wildfires: firefighters battle biggest blaze in over a century  The Times