Source: www.expatica.com. Posted on 30 July 2004.
Residents and tourists in parts of southern France were Wednesday contemplating vast tracts of still-smouldering and blackened land left behind by scrub fires, including one huge blaze that threatened the 2,000-year-old city of Nimes overnight.
More than 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) have been consumed since the fires first broke out last weekend in dry wooded areas frequently at risk in the hot summer months.
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