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Europe heatwave sparks wildfire fears as thousands return home in Spain · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Back to those fires in France. Now we can take
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  Speaker 1: you live there to speak to our correspondent James Waterhouse,
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  Speaker 1: who joins us from Bordeaux. James, all day we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about the temperatures going up, how that could affect things.
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  Speaker 1: Is it getting much hotter and what difference has the
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  Speaker 1: heat and the winds made.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely getting hotter, Lucy. It's almost like a
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  Speaker 2: sitting heat that wraps around you. There's very little wind.
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  Speaker 2: Behind me is a long line of fire trucks, firefighters
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  Speaker 2: that have come from other French cities like Marseille, like Leon,
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  Speaker 2: and previously there was what's called a flare up where
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  Speaker 2: the fire has reignited because of these high temperatures, and
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  Speaker 2: that is the fear. Really if they get out of control,
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  Speaker 2: then the authorities lose control of these wildfires, and cities
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  Speaker 2: like Bordeaux once again under a direct threat. But I've
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  Speaker 2: got to say when the fire was raging earlier, there
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  Speaker 2: was a succession of aircraft, of helicopters dump their payloads
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  Speaker 2: of water of fire retardant overhead. They flew over every
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  Speaker 2: five minutes, and then fire crews moved in to try
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  Speaker 2: and moisten the soil and stem and try and contain
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  Speaker 2: the expansion of the fire. It was quite something to
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  Speaker 2: see and it seems they've got it under control, and
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  Speaker 2: I think this is going to be the story of
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  Speaker 2: the afternoon as long as these temperatures are high, as
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  Speaker 2: long as this vegetation remains dry as well. There is
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  Speaker 2: still a risk for now, but I don't think anyone,
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  Speaker 2: whether they're volunteers, whether their fire crews, are seeing this
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  Speaker 2: fight as being a short one. They know they are
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  Speaker 2: in this for the long haul.
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  Speaker 1: James, thank you so much for that update. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: citizen led organization Fur de Fret provides a real time
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  Speaker 1: platform for monitoring forest fires, offering interactive live mapping on
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  Speaker 1: community reporting based on community reporting. Well, let's speak now
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  Speaker 1: to Camille Masilo, who is a member of the organization
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  Speaker 1: to learn.
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  Speaker 3: More about it.
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  Speaker 1: Canmi all good to have you with us, just to
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  Speaker 1: explain a bit more about what you do and why
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  Speaker 1: you felt the need for.
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  Speaker 3: This, I thought for it is a citizen platform run
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  Speaker 3: by a non profit association recognized as being of public interest.
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  Speaker 3: This app itself, it's the syll It's tense nilssary this
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  Speaker 3: week and it was created because afirmation about throst fire
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  Speaker 3: was and still is across multiple source office, social media,
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  Speaker 3: world of mouth. There was no single place where people
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  Speaker 3: could see in real time what was actually burning near them.
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  Speaker 3: And the idea it's very simple. Stile it sees the
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  Speaker 3: big picture but coursely and residents sees precisely, but only locally.
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  Speaker 3: We connect the to the to the to the to ID.
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  Speaker 3: So help let's citizen Robert fire with the photo and
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  Speaker 3: localization new residents of film orginate it and and al
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  Speaker 3: Draven's availabilities Gore Somill.
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  Speaker 1: You collaborate, You collaborate with the government on this. You
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  Speaker 1: work with other agencies and the government.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we're not competiting with the governments. We work alongside them.
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  Speaker 3: How modeation teams include firefighters, stints and local government agents
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  Speaker 3: and internal security first, so it's fell from police, citizens,
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  Speaker 3: animal personnels, from official channels, review and validate what doesn't
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  Speaker 3: clear the automatic fructional and we're.
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  Speaker 1: Just seeing a map at the moment where you can
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  Speaker 1: see the fire activity right now, Camille, how would you
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  Speaker 1: compare this year's wildfire with the previous years.
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  Speaker 3: What most streaking, even that's the volume, is the geography
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  Speaker 3: fires used to be since at the mid and southern
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  Speaker 3: Friends problem. Now the report on the map which all
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  Speaker 3: the way of the Brittany difference near Soutainblo Paris and
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  Speaker 3: the and the north of the Friends, so of the
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  Speaker 3: risk maps and genuinely changed. And what's part of the
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  Speaker 3: why we're seeing record number this week. We are the
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  Speaker 3: number one in Dland in France.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and.
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  Speaker 3: And the ritually caestion of the of the volume of
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  Speaker 3: the Welsh fire. It's the casion for the mutual fronts
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  Speaker 3: of the fire and the school services.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Camille, thank you very much for joining us. Really
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  Speaker 1: interesting to hear what your organization is doing right now,
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  Speaker 1: and keep across those fires as well throughout the day
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  Speaker 1: here on BBC News