Speaking with FRANCE 24's Monte Francis, Stefan Doerr, Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research at Swansea University, says that "we need to prepare the environment more to reduce the risk of fire…

France is battling to contain an "exceptionally large wildfire" in a forest south of Paris on July 13, with aircraft in the skies and firefighters on the ground trying to douse…

A wildfire in in the Fontainebleau forest south of Paris has burnt nearly 1,000 hectares since July 12 - an area larger from Gibraltar. Hundreds of residents from nearby towns…

A fire raging in the historic and much-visited Fontainebleau forest south of Paris on Monday has prompted evacuations and disrupted train and highway traffic. Authorities say the…

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Monte Francis, Stefan Doerr, Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research at Swansea University, says that "we need to prepare the environment more to…

Firefighters continue to grapple with wildfires in the forest of Fontainebleau, 70km south of Paris, which have already burned through more than 1900 hectares. Police are now…

Two people have been arrested in France, on suspicion of deliberately having started a wildfire near Paris. In the famous Fontainebleau forest, hundreds of firefighters are…

Two fires that have burned just over 2,000 hectares since Sunday in the Fontainebleau Forest south of Paris, have been "contained", even though they are not extinguished, the…

With the two wildfires burning southeast of Paris now contained, for investigators, the focus is on how they started. Five people have been arrested, suspected of setting the…

French President Emmenuel Macron visited Fontainebleau on the outskirts of Paris, after devastating wildfires that scorched at least 10% of the 20-thousand-hectare forest. Macron…