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  • Broiling summer brings droughts (France lost 15,000 people in 2003 - from the heat)

    07/20/2005 8:01:52 PM PDT · by Libloather · 42 replies · 910+ views
    Broiling summer brings droughts By John Tagliabue The New York Times TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2005 PARIS - All through a long hot summer, the temperatures in Europe have soared to unusual levels. In central France, three firemen died on Sunday trying to control a fire in a barn. In Spain on Monday, the police discovered the bodies of 11 firemen who died after being trapped by a giant forest fire in the central part of the country. In Switzerland, Alpine rescuers recovered the body of a climber yielded up by a melting glacier more than 20 years after he plunged...