Wildfires in France have revealed hundreds of World War II shells in the…

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Multiple reputable news outlets and French media report that a major forest fire in the Gironde department of southwest France, affecting the commune of Le Porge near Bordeaux, uncovered a large quantity of World War II-era munitions. Local authorities and bomb disposal officials state that an underground ammunition depot or buried stocks of German and French wartime shells were revealed and partly detonated by the heat of the wildfire. Initial clearance operations reported about 75 shells recovered, and subsequent reports from France 24 and Barron’s cite local authorities saying around 400 shells and pieces of ammunition have been recovered in the Le Porge area. These accounts consistently describe the discovery as occurring in the context of recent wildfires and locate it specifically in Le Porge, confirming that wildfires revealed hundreds of WWII shells there.