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European wildfires expose and detonate buried WWII explosives
This summer's wildfires across Europe have uncovered and detonated unexploded ordnance from World War I and II buried beneath the landscape. As fires strip away soil and vegetation, old munitions hidden across former battlefields are being exposed and ignited. The phenomenon poses a serious danger to firefighters and rescue workers operating in burned areas.
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