With record heat turning brush and farmland into a tinderbox across much of Europe, wildfires are tearing across France, Spain and Portugal.
Firefighters from around Europe started pouring into France on Friday to help the country's beleaguered crews battle blazes that have charred dozens of square miles and forced thousands of people from their homes. As CBS News correspondent Ramy Inocencio reports, a towering wall of flames in southwest France and official drought declarations in England are burning reminders thatThe renowned Bordeaux wine region is being scorched.
It's a battle of man against nature that rages day and night, and as Inocencio reports, it's the second time crews have been forced to fight it in two months, after far-reaching fires that hit the region in July reignited about a week ago amid tinder-dry conditions. Southern France, like much of Europe, has seen historically low rainfall this summer.
Just to the south, in Spain, wisps of smoke drift over parched hillsides and then turn into soaring plumes over teams of firefighters that look like ants as they attack a roaring giant of a blaze that will not stop. Even in England, a country not used to dealing with large wildfires, bales of hay have caught fire like matchsticks in parched farm fields and drought conditions have forced farmers to dip into their winter feed to keep their livestock going. It may only be August, but the grass on the ground is too dry to provide the animals the nutrients they need.
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