Wildfires expose unexploded bombs across Europe

Fires can ignite old munitions and also burn away the scrub and brush that hides them.

Droughts across Europe have also been churning up military vehicles and weapons from the era, with shrinking rivers revealing German warships, a Wehrmacht motorbike, and a bomb.

Some of the weapons have exploded in the intense heat. Blasts have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, where a bomb-disposal team was dispatched to check a forest threatened by flames near a site of fierce fighting in the Limburg province in 1944.

Members of a bomb disposal unit sit next to 1.8 ton World War II bomb after defusing it in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2017 (Picture: AP) Emergency crews battling wildfires across Europe have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the scorched surface – rusty old wartime bombs and mines. The intense heat has al

The scorched landscapes have exposed a potentially lethal threat lurking underground

The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II

Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII  AP News

The fires both expose the old bombs and increase the possibility of them going off.

Wildfires expose - and detonate - buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII  Toronto Star