Around 800 firefighters were still at work in Fontainebleau forest on Wednesday morning, tackling flare-ups after the fires were brought under control the previous day, following 48 hours of intense firefighting.
Issued on: 15/07/2026 - 13:45
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"Three moderate flare-ups" had been identified in the Grand Parquet area, near the town of Fontainebleau, Paul-Edouard Laurain, spokesman for the Seine-et-Marne fire and rescue service (Sdis), told French press agency AFP. Grand Parquet is the area where the second fire broke out on Monday afternoon, ravaging around 450 hectares. The main fire, which started on Sunday near the A6 motorway, spread across some 1,600 hectares over two days. Earlier, Laurain explained that operations would now focus "mainly on damping down, meaning making sure we deal with all the smouldering parts still in the ground, or the stumps or branches that have fallen to the ground, so that we don't get any further flare-ups."
Firefighters operate during a fire in the Fontainebleau Forest, in Noisy-sur-Ecole, in the Paris' Ile-de-France region on July 14, 2026. AFP - DIMITAR DILKOFF
