Authorities said Air reinforcements headed to Belgium Monday to help battle a massive wildfire in a nature reserve, whose “spread remained limited” overnight after threatening to spill into Germany.
The local Governor’s office said Major aerial resources are due to reinforce crews on the ground throughout the day,.
It added that helicopters from Norway and Germany are joining the fleet of aircraft hauling water to hard-to-reach areas.
In a related development, Rain over eastern Belgium on Monday morning aided firefighters battling to contain the country’s biggest ‌wildfire on record, which had threatened to reach the German border.
Wildfires have ripped through Europe this summer after successive severe heatwaves, fuelled by climate change intensified drought and left vegetation tinder-dry.
Data from the European Forest Fire Information System showed that Fires have now burned 576,000 hectares (2,225 square miles) in Europe this year, that is the size of is an area twice the size of Luxembourg.
In Belgium, weather agency IRM said between 5 and 9 millimetres (0.2 to 0.35 inches) of rain was forecast on Monday in the High Fens, a nature reserve in the east of Belgium which has been burning since Friday.