00:00france just recorded its hottest month ever measured and the numbers are staggering july twenty twenty six averaged twenty four
00:07line degrees celsius nationwide beating the previous records from the heat waves of two thousand three and two thousand six
00:13it was also france's third driest july on record with rainfall nearly seventy percent below normal
00:19leaving soil parched across the country that heat and drought helped fuel the largest wildfire france has seen since 1949
00:27it broke out in the gironde region on july 22nd burned about forty two thousand hectares and forced more than
00:35two hundred twenty thousand people to evacuate their homes meteo france says back-to-back heat waves since may have
00:41left the country primed for more fire risk scientists point to it as another sign of europe's accelerating climate crisis
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