ARBONNE-LA-FORET, France: French officials rushed two firefighting planes to the Paris region Sunday, after a fire erupted south of the French capital, disrupting traffic during a busy summer travel weekend and piling more misery on a region sweltering through its latest heatwave. The fire that swept through 800 hectares of the Fontainebleau forest, southeast of Paris, "could" have been "deliberately started," Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez stated at the scene on Monday.

French officials rushed two firefighting planes to the Paris region Sunday, after a fire erupted south of the French capital, disrupting traffic during a busy summer travel…

A fast-moving wildfire south of Paris scorched about 800 hectares of the Fontainebleau forest, prompting France to deploy two firefighting aircraft as crews battled to contain the…