法国西南部一场烧毁42,000公顷的野火终于被宣布扑灭，这是该国自1949年以来最大的火灾爆发两个月后，当局周一表示。
A wildfire that scorched 42,000 hectares in southwest France has finally been declared extinguished, two months after the country's largest blaze since 1949 broke out, authorities said Monday.
超过3,300名消防员参与了扑灭火灾的行动 © JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP 火灾于7月在吉伦特大区索莫斯村附近爆发，迫使约224,000人撤离，因为它威胁到了卡费雷旅游半岛和波尔多郊区。
More than 3,300 firefighters took part in the operation to tackle the blaze © JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP The fire erupted in July near the village of Saumos in the Gironde region and forced the evacuation of around 224,000 people as it threatened both the tourist peninsula of Cap-Ferret and the outskirts of Bordeaux.
“索莫斯森林火灾今年夏天烧毁了42,000公顷，其中37,296公顷被毁，现已扑灭，”国家服务部门在一份声明中写道，并补充说没有报告死亡。
"The Saumos forest fire, which burned 42,000 hectares this summer, including 37,296 hectares destroyed, is now extinguished," state services wrote in a statement, adding no deaths had been reported.
大火于8月1日被控制，但继续在地下阴燃数周，最终才被宣布熄灭。
The blaze was put under control on August 1, but continued to smoulder underground for weeks before finally being declared out.
超过3,300名消防员参与了行动，官员们称这是现代法国民防历史上最大的灭火行动。
More than 3,300 firefighters took part in the operation, which officials described as the largest firefighting effort in modern French civil security history.
这场大火是自1949年同一地区烧毁约50,000公顷的野火以来，法国记录在案的最大野火。
The blaze was the largest recorded in France since a 1949 wildfire in the same region that burned about 50,000 hectares.
根据初步数据，法国今年已有约98,000公顷被野火烧毁，是自1976年以来的最高水平。
France has seen around 98,000 hectares destroyed by wildfires this year, the highest level since 1976, according to provisional figures.