It was 8 a.m. on Tuesday July 25th and Samuel had worked the night as duty officer at his fire station. Now he was to set off to relay his colleagues who had spent their night battling the flames that for several days had been consuming hectare upon hectare of the forests in the Var département of the Provence region in south-east France.
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