{"id":289644,"date":"2026-08-04T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=289644"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:59:05","slug":"wildfires-in-france-uncover-ww2-munitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/289644\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires in France uncover WW2 munitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wildfires in the south of France have revealed a cache of 400 historic shells and munitions in the village of Le Porge, the BBC<\/a> writes, referring to local authorities.<\/p>\n

Blasts during the fires, initially thought to be exploding gas cylinders, may have been World War Two explosives detonated by the heat, the local fire commander told local media.<\/p>\n

More than 100 explosions were heard on the second night of the fire, Mayor Martial Zaninetti told French news outlet France Info, likening it to “the sound of war.”<\/p>\n

“There were ammunition depots buried in land within our municipality, but we didn’t know it, and they exploded,” Zaninetti told France Info.<\/p>\n

He described them going “to the right, to the left” and that there was “even one that went through a house.”<\/p>\n

Wildfires have raged across Europe over the two weeks, primarily in France and Spain, where more than 330,000 people were evacuated.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wildfires in the south of France have revealed a cache of 400 historic shells and munitions in the village of Le Porge, the BBC writes, referring to local authorities. Blasts during the fires, initially thought to be exploding gas cylinders, may have been World War Two explosives detonated by the heat, the local fire commander […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":289569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289645,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289644\/revisions\/289645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}