Blaze burns through 'lungs of greater Paris' Fontainebleau forest
Around 400 firefighters descended on Fontainebleau on Sunday as a fire broke out in the Ile de France forest.
It comes just ahead of the July 14 national holiday and on the first major weekend for departures for the summer holiday season, leaving train networks disrupted and forcing highways to close in the Paris region.
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