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Europe continues to battle wildfires as Belgium sees biggest blaze in recorded history

The fire in eastern Belgium doubled in size over 24 hours by Sunday morning. The EU Civil Protection Mechanism was activated on Saturday, with three helicopters and two water-bombing aircraft arriving from Sweden, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.

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00:02Wildfires are continuing to burn across several parts of Europe, with firefighters battling
00:07major blazes in Belgium, France, Germany, Croatia and Greece amid persistent heat and
00:13dry conditions.
00:15A fire in Belgium's High Fence Nature Reserve more than doubled in size over 24 hours at
00:22the weekend to around 3,000 hectares, making it the largest in the country's recorded history.
00:28On Saturday afternoon, local media reported that 600 people had been asked to evacuate
00:35in Belgium's Liège province. Authorities said more than 250 firefighters and other emergency
00:42service workers were deployed on Saturday night. Meanwhile, across the border in Germany, emergency
00:48services made significant progress in fighting a fire in the Hürtgen Forest that forced around
00:542,000 people to evacuate on Friday. Residents were able to return home on Saturday evening,
01:01according to local German media. In Spain, firefighters continued to battle a massive blaze that has
01:08been ongoing for more than a week in Aragon's northern Huesca province. The flames are threatening
01:14the Hürtgen Forest being because of the
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