SOURBRODT, Belgium - Firefighters launched a potentially decisive push Tuesday to encircle Belgium’s largest wildfire in a century, despite wind and rain hampering air support operations over the High Fens nature reserve.
The blaze charring the vast expanse of boggy peatlands, pine trees and hiking trails grew over the weekend to half the size of Manhattan — 3,000 hectares (7,500 acres) — with hundreds of firefighters working night and day to wrestle it under control.
