# French firefighters stop wildfires' spread but they continue to burn

https://mins.news/en/item/11718

- France 24, 2026-08-01 09:58 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260801-french-firefighters-stop-wildfires-spread-but-they-continue-burn

> French officials said on Saturday that firefighters had halted the advance of the country’s largest wildfire in more than seven decades. The blaze, however, remains out of control. France has spent weeks fighting wildfires that followed a series of deadly heatwaves. Scientists have connected those heatwaves to human-caused climate change.

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