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UK at 'exceptional' risk of wildfires as two arrested over fires in France | BBC News

French firefighters are still battling two fires south of Paris.

Almost 1,500 hectares of the Fontainebleau forest have been burned after the fire began on Sunday.

Two people have been arrested o

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I live a mile fro Manchester city center and it stinks and black particles keep coming in noticeable on my bath tub
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I live right next to the fire
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The view from my window is of a brown country side for miles, fire is a true concern right now.
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You can make millions of matches with one tree, an one match will burn forest , our teacher used put on board coming up summer holidays 🙏🙏
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It's such a shame.
STILL , nice weather we are having isn't it ? 😊 😎
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In national parks and areas of natural beauty etc it should be made an offence to smoke and carry glass bottles as both of these products can cause fires when recklessly discarded. BBQs and similar should also be banned. If you are caught smoking, possessing glass material or BBQs, you should be fined immediately and banned from the area for at least 1 year!!
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We used to do controlled burns that stopped this sort of thing happening.
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@Azl_247 From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 8
Meanwhile UK Fire and Rescue are looking at closing stations and looking at how to respond with reduced staffing. If only someone had seen this change in the climate coming 🙄
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I live in Canford Heath, Dorset - famous for its heath fires.
It always seems to be that the heath fire season coincides with the schools being on summer holidays.
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Sounds like the risk of arson is higher than the risk of "wildfires".
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@JdeV15 From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 11
Glad they caught the culprits
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@CellRus From YouTube ↗ 15 Jul 2026 10
WHy do people deliberately set fire to things?? So stupid.
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I hope everyone stay safe.
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Get rid of those data centres asap. Thats the heat souce and people are NOT stupid
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So here in German I watch the TV and they report it as climate induced conditions on most all channels, BBC na!
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God Almighty! And I thought we were havign wildfire problems in the USA! I hope everyone is getting evacuated in time.
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Why haven't we got dedicated firefighting aircraft?
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@ceptembre From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 14
Fire hazard weather announced = 100% chance that two or three random individuals will for one reason or another decide to go and try to start fires intentionally
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Something l noticed about the recent wildfires is that several trees that were shown still had fruit/seed hanging from the charred remains of the branches. It was interesting to do a little research on why this is.
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@GEF6560 From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 31
People act like idiots. Dry grass and barbecues.
Why??
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