Forest fires endanger France defense sites
Wildfires continue to spread in southwestern France, specifically near the city of Bordeaux, where they threaten important defense industry facilities. The threatened area includes four facilities operated by Arian GVB, including a missile fuel plant for the ballistic missile system "M51," as well as facilities belonging to Dassault, Safran, and Thales. French authorities have deployed military and police forces to assist in fighting the fires and have carried out evacuations for roughly 220,000 people in the Gironde region, after the fires affected an area of 42,000 hectares. Additionally, train services in the southern part of Bordeaux have been suspended due to the expanding wildfires, amid a record heatwave sweeping France this summer — the largest since World War II — driven by an unprecedented heatwave in Western Europe.
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