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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 persisted heat and dry conditions.
00:15A fire in Belgium's high-fence nature reserve more than doubled in size over 24 hours at the weekend
00:23to 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 in Belgium's Liege province.
00:37Authorities said more than 250 firefighters and other emergency service workers were deployed on Saturday night.
00:45Meanwhile, across the border in Germany, emergency services made significant progress
00:50in fighting a fire in the Hertgen forest that forced around 2,000 people to evacuate on Friday.
00:57Residents were able to return home on Saturday evening, according to local German media.
01:03In Spain, firefighters continued to battle a massive blaze that has been ongoing for more than a week
01:10in Aragon's northern Huesca province.
01:12The flames are threatening a 1,000-year-old monastery.
01:17The flames have carreer be eaten in theHerabes.
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