🇺🇸 영어 원문
The battle by firefighters in France to bring under control a large wildfire raging in forests south of the country’s capital is entering its second day.
The Fontainebleau forest blaze, described by officials as “virulent” and of “exceptional scale”, partially closed the country’s main north-south highway.
Interior minister Laurent Nunez has indicated the blaze may have been deliberately set, after officials said the fire had raced across 800 hectares in the forest about 40 miles (60km) south-east of Paris.
On Monday, Nunez said that two people had been arrested in connection with the Fontainbleau blaze, and 59 across the country in connection with fires.
The Paris region is suffering through its third heatwave this year during a summer in which temperature records have been broken in several countries across Europe.
It is the first time firefighting planes had been sent up from the normally drier and hotter south of the country to tackle fires in the Paris region, Eric Brocardi, of France’s national federation of firefighters, said.
Two firefighting helicopters and an observation aircraft had also been deployed, he added, according to French news agency Agence France-Presse.
Nunez suggested on Monday that authorities are exploring the possibility that the fire was started intentionally.
“There were about 10 fire ignition points within a perimeter of 1,000 meters, which suggests that it could have been deliberately set,” he said in a statement reported by the AFP news agency.
Nunez told France 2’s 8 PM News that two people were arrested for “deliberate or accidental arson” in the region.
Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote that the Fontainebleau forest had been “struck by a fire of exceptional magnitude”.
“All available resources are being mobilised,” he wrote on social media, as he expressed “solidarity” with local residents and praised firefighters tackling the blaze.
Earlier, a fire had also blocked a highway running east from Paris and disrupted a high-speed train line to the south of France.
Travellers were facing delays of up to six hours for trains arriving at or leaving from Paris’s Gare de Lyon, French rail company SNCF said on Sunday evening.
Julien Marion, director general of civil security in France said on Friday that since the start of this year, wildfires have covered some 25,000 hectares of land in France.
The latest French heatwave has forced the temporary shutdown of three nuclear power stations to avoid the discharge of warm cooling water into overheated waterways.
Organisers of the Tour de France cycling race also shortened Sunday’s stage by 30km (19 miles) as temperatures neared 40C.
Climate change is driving up temperatures globally, making such extreme weather events more frequent and severe.
🇰🇷 한국어 요약
프랑스 파리 남쪽의 숲에서 발생한 대규모 산불이 2 일째 진화 작업이 진행 중입니다. 프랑스 내무부 장관은 이 산불이 고의적으로 지어졌을 가능성이 있다고 밝혔습니다. 특히 1km 반경 내에 10 개 이상의 발화 지점이 발견되어 방화 혐의가 강력하게 의심받고 있습니다. 현재까지 2 명이 체포되었으며, 전국적으로는 59 명이 관련 혐의로 검거되었습니다.
이번 산불은 파리 지역이 겪은 세 번째 폭염 기간에 발생했습니다. 기후 변화로 인해 유럽 전역에서 기온 기록이 깨지고 있으며, 프랑스 내에서도 산불 피해가 심각합니다. 소방 헬기 및 항공기가 동원되었고, 고속철도 운행에도 차질이 빚어졌습니다. 대통령 또한 모든 가용 자원을 동원하여 대응하겠다고 밝혔습니다.
🔑 핵심 단어 (Vocabulary)
- Wildfire – 산불 – A large, uncontrolled fire burning in a forest or grassland.
- Deliberately – 고의적으로 – Done on purpose rather than by accident.
- Arson – 방화 – The criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property.
- Heatwave – 폭염 – A prolonged period of excessively hot weather.
- Mobilised – 동원되다 – To prepare and organize resources for a specific purpose.
- Perimeter – 경계 – The continuous line forming the boundary of a closed geometric figure or area.
- Ignition – 점화 – The action of starting an engine or causing something to catch fire.
- Solidarity – 연대 – Unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest.
- Disrupted – 방해받다/지연되다 – To interrupt or cause problems for an event or process.
- Climate change – 기후 변화 – Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
🔗 원문 링크
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