# Belgium’s High Fens blaze highlights risks from peat and climate conditions

https://mins.news/en/video/25414

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-08-18 18:07 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=881UBtUdMow

> Heavy rain and water-dropping aircraft have not fully contained a vast peat fire in Belgium’s eastern High Fens. About 3,000 hectares of natural forest have become a smouldering wasteland, with the fire spreading a metre underground through bog peat. Smoke has hospitalized two firefighters, displaced residents and raised evacuation concerns in nearby Monschau, Germany.

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