Footage launched by Catalonia’s fireplace brigade confirmed firefighters tackling a big wildfire on the French-Spanish border. The blaze unfold across the French villages of Cerbère and Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast earlier than advancing into Spain, fireplace providers stated. Hundreds of firefighters had been mobilised on each side of the border to stem the blaze, which destroyed virtually 1,000 hectares of land. An unusually dry winter and spring have raised fears of a repeat of final summer time’s fires and droughts throughout Europe. One firefighter was being handled with minor injures.