Article 6Z65T France's 'wine lake' problem fanning country's largest wildfire in decades

France's 'wine lake' problem fanning country's largest wildfire in decades

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France's "wine lake" is fanning the largest wildfire in decades. The "wine" in the so-called wine lake is a nod to an excess of wine in France. To reduce it, the government began a program in the 1980s to pay vintners to tear out their grapes and plant something else. But in the Aude region, in France's southwest, vintners can't change crops, so they've abandoned their fields to grasses, bushes and brambles. And all of that is making today's massive blaze bigger and faster. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.

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