Fires that have consumed some 4,200 hectares of brush and woodland on the Mediterranean island of Corsica continued to burn Friday, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said, according to dpa. Only one of the three blazes that broke out Thursday has been brought under control. Hundreds of firefighters continued to fight the other two blazes, which were being fueled by record-high temperatures and summer winds. One of the fires was about 30 kilometres from the city of Ajaccio, the other 70 kilometres to the south near Sartene. By Friday afternoon the fires had destroyed 15 homes and 60 cars as well as trees more than 100 years old. Five firefighters have been slightly injured.
