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Responders on Sunday were focused on the front line of the fire moving towards Germany and were hopeful that \u200bcooler, more humid weather would support efforts \u2060to contain \u200cit, Stephanie Ernoux, spokesperson for the administration of \u200bthe Belgian \u200bregion of Wallonia, told Reuters.<\/p>\n
The fire is more \u2060than double the size of a blaze in \u200b2011 that burned close to 1,400 hectares, data \u200bfrom the European Forest Fire Information System showed.<\/p>\n
“No \u200bhomes have \u200bbeen affected at \u2060this stage, although the fire remains close and smoke levels are significant,” the office of the governor of Liege said in an \u200bupdate.<\/p>\n The blaze ignited as European countries including Belgium suffered their fifth heatwave<\/a> of the summer this week.<\/p>\n Scientists say that human-caused climate change<\/a> has increased the likelihood of the hot and dry conditions that allow wildfires<\/a> to spread faster and burn longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brussels: Firefighters worked \u200bthrough the night to \u200bbattle Belgium’s biggest wildfire on record, which by Sunday \u200bmorning had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,17570,1403,17622,17619,17620,17623,14276,17621,17594,16680],"class_list":["post-32735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-wildfire","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-wildfires","tag-eu-firefighting-support","tag-evacuated-villages","tag-german-border-wildfire","tag-heatwave","tag-heatwave-effects","tag-high-fens-nature-reserve","tag-wildfires"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117104510474593149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ET](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786872914_442_118783427.cms.png\")
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The EU deployed three helicopters and two water bomber aircraft from around Europe on Saturday after Belgium requested emergency reinforcements.Local authorities said the defensive line protecting evacuated villages<\/a> from the fire was holding on \u200cSunday, though residents who had been evacuated on Saturday were told they should not yet return to their homes.<\/p>\n