Praying for firefighters, praying for rain

… as flames force 250,000 from their homes

From Bordeaux to Provence, and before that at Fontainebleau close to the gates of Paris, France has been depending on the efforts of an extraordinary body of men and women fighting ferocious woodland blazes.

It’s been the same grim story elsewhere. Canada and Spain are also suffering from this newly familiar menace to lives, nature and property.

For any…