Brussels ambitious wildfire response hasn't been enough to contain fires

Nick BeakeEurope Correspondent I was at briefing in Brussels last month when European Commission officials spoke of their concern that wildfire season had started earlier this year. They said the omens were not good. Since then we’ve had the devastating fires in southeast Spain, in which seven Britons were among the dead. And now both Spanish and French officials talk of an unprecedented struggle to contain these current blazes. Commission officials had told reporters that a fleet of nearly 30 p