France battles 'monster' wildfire near Bordeaux for third day

General view of smoke and flames from the fire in Belin-Beliet, as wildfires continue to spread in the Gironde region of southwestern France, on Aug 10, 2022.HOSTENS, France - More than 1,000 firefighters backed by water-bombing aircraft battled a "monster" wildfire near France's wine-growing heartland of Bordeaux for a third day on Thursday , with no let-up in blistering temperatures seen before the weekend.

"It's an ogre, it's a monster," Gregory Allione from the French firefighters body FNSPF told RTL radio. "It's a disaster, economically, ecologically, it's awful," Jean-Louis Dartiailh, the mayor of Hostens, a small town close to the fire, told Radio Classique. "The area is totally disfigured. We're heartbroken, we're exhausted."

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