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  Day 3348 (Saturday) 8 th August 2026  This is Villefranche-sur-Mer and this is the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Huw found these two articles in the Nice Matin this morning about two arsonists found on Mont Boron which is the hill behind Villefranche. 1 st article. Attempted arson: two individuals arrested in Mont-Boron have been taken into custody. Two people were arrested on the night of Thursday, August 6, 2026, after an attempted fire on the Mont Boron forest road in Nice. The joint intervention of the municipal police and the national police, with the support of the Urban Supervision Center (CSU), prevented the worst after witnesses raised the alarm. During the night, an individual was arrested after attempting to set fire to vegetation using a flammable liquid, apparently gasoline, on a forest road on the wooded hill of Mont Boron. The young man reportedly fled before achieving his goal. Young suspects At 4:20 a.m. this T...
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  Day 3347 (Friday) 7 th August 2026  This is Villefranche-sur-Mer and this is Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat.   This is happening in Nice this weekend… Following on from yesterday here is some French vocabulary to understand wildfire warnings and evacuations. People watching smoke from the beach in Andernos-Les Bains during a fire in Lege Cap-Ferret forest, southwestern France, on July 2 nd , 2026, as part of the nearby area has been evacuated. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP) Wildfires are frightening enough without the added challenge of trying to understand emergency information in another language. Whether you're following evacuation orders, listening to local radio or reading official updates, here's the essential French vocabulary to help you stay informed. Wildfires ( feux de forêt ) are a longstanding feature of summer in France, particularly in the Mediterranean south. But as temperatures rise, wildfires are becoming more severe and are also happening in the centre and th...
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  Day 3346 (Thursday) 6 th August 2026  This is Villefranche-sur-Mer and this is Monaco. It was very hot and humid again today and we went to the garden centre in Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat to get some new flowers for the balcony. It wasn’t as good as the last time we went but it was still pretty good. It was so hot in the glass house. These were the ones we bought, Badger is going to love them.  There have been lots of wildfires in France lately and we’ve been very lucky to have missed them. Huw found this article this morning explaining why they’ve passed us by in the Alpes-Maritimes area…so far. "We have had some fires. They were brought under control very quickly": why have the Alpes-Maritimes so far escaped the major fires that are ravaging the Var? While wildfires have multiplied this summer in the Var, Aude, and Gironde departments, the Alpes-Maritimes department seems to have escaped the most devastating blazes so far. This impression is misleading. Since June 1 st , ...
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