A FIRE raged in the historic Fontainebleau forest south of Paris today, prompting evacuations of some residential districts and disrupting train and motorway traffic.It was among several wildfires in western Europe as the region bakes in its third red-alert heatwave this year.In Spain, 10 people were still unaccounted from a fire that ripped through the remote southern expatriate community of Los Gallardos last week, killing 13 people including a 93-year-old British national who died in hospital on Sunday.

A FIRE raged in the historic Fontainebleau forest south of Paris today, prompting evacuations of some residential districts and disrupting train and motorway traffic.

It was among several wildfires in western Europe as the region bakes in its third red-alert heatwave this year.

In Spain, 10 people were still unaccounted from a fire that ripped through the remote southern expatriate community of Los Gallardos last week, killing 13 people including a 93-year-old British national who died in hospital on Sunday.

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