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Rain aids fight against Belgium's biggest wildfire, as blazes rip through Europe
About 500 firefighters from Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg are battling the blaze, which has burned 3,000 hectares and may take months to extinguish.
- Rain over eastern Belgium on Monday brought relief to firefighters battling the country's biggest wildfire on record in the High Fens nature reserve, which has burned 3,000 hectares since Friday.
- High temperatures reaching 37 degrees Celsius sparked the fire on Friday, and because it penetrated metres-deep peat bogs, officials warned it could take months to fully extinguish.
- Nicolas Yernaux, a spokesperson for the administration of the Wallonia region, told Reuters, "We can't say that the fire is contained. It flares up all the time." Some 500 firefighters from Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg are battling the blaze with European Union aircraft.
- Across Europe, fires have killed more than 20 people and burned 576,000 hectares this year, an area twice the size of Luxembourg, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System.
- Extreme fire risk has become a regular feature of European summers as climate change intensifies drought, with experts noting that about 90% of wildfires are ignited by human activities and exacerbated by flammable vegetation buildup from rural abandonment.
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Light rain in eastern Belgium on Monday helped slow the spread of the High Fens wildfire, though not enough to halt it, according to local authorities and media reports.The blaze, one of Belgium's biggest wildfires, has burned about 3,000 hectares since
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