{"id":932019,"date":"2026-07-13T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/932019\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:18:29","slug":"wildfire-of-exceptional-scale-burning-near-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/932019\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire of &#8220;exceptional scale&#8221; burning near Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two firefighting planes were deployed to the Paris region Sunday after a large fire erupted south of the French capital, disrupting traffic during a busy summer travel weekend and piling more misery on a region sweltering through its latest heatwave.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which officials described as &#8220;very virulent&#8221; and of &#8220;exceptional scale,&#8221; began late afternoon in the sprawling Fontainebleau forest about 40 miles south-east of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said early Monday the blaze had raced across some 1,900 acres and was still spreading, causing the partial closure of a main highway.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-13-at-08-25-57.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-07-13-at-08-25-57.png \" height=\"344\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Aerial images of a fire sweeping through the Fontainebleau forest near Paris, burning several hectares and forcing the closure of part of a motorway, on July 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                AFP<\/p>\n<p>Firefighting aircraft were forced to suspend their operations at nightfall.<\/p>\n<p>Around 15 homes were evacuated in the nearby village of Vaudoue and firefighters were defending several other towns in the area, the local Seine-et-Marne fire service said.<\/p>\n<p>About 400 firefighters worked to contain the flames, which erupted just ahead of a July 14 national holiday and on the first major weekend for departures for the summer holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was disrupted along highways in the area, as well as along the high-speed rail line leading to the southeast of the country.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gettyimages-2285240367.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"FRANCE-FIRE \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Firefighters work to put out a forest fire in the forest of Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris, in Noisy-sur-Ecole early on July 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Paris region is currently experiencing its third heat wave since May, increasing the risk of fires.<\/p>\n<p>The three heatwaves have seen temperature records broken in several countries across Europe and have caused thousands of excess deaths, according to estimates in France, Belgium, Britain and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The June heatwaves would have been &#8220;virtually impossible&#8221; without climate change, the World Weather Attribution group of scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>Several other European countries have faced record-breaking average temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two firefighting planes were deployed to the Paris region Sunday after a large fire erupted south of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":932020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[285,5025,156,5370,50,3715,103],"class_list":["post-932019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-climate-change","tag-fire","tag-france","tag-heat-wave","tag-news","tag-paris","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116912870631464439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}