EU nations scramble to aid France in battling "monstrous" wildfires
In an unprecedented display of global unity, hundreds of firefighters from around the EU have been dispatched to France to assist in putting out wildfires. The majority of them are stationed along a 26-mile (40 km) active fire-front in the southwest, where a "monstrous" fire is still destroying pine forests. Early on Friday morning, German firemen and their vehicles arrived to assist in putting out the enormous Landiras fire in the Gironde and the Landes, south of Bordeaux, which had rekindled this week after consuming vast tracts of forest in July. Along with teams from Poland, Austria, Greece, and Italy, Romanian firemen and more than 1,100 French firefighters worked to put out the fire. As more than 360 firemen arrived in trucks and aircraft, President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: "Our partners are coming to France's help against the fires. They have my gratitude. The solidarity of Europe is at work! France has experienced the