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Tourists at a beauty spot got the fright of their lives after a low-flying aircraft zoomed past them just a few feet off the ground.
The Bombardier 415 was spotted coming in for a refill at Lake Villeneuve de la Raho in the Pyrenees after helping battle a spate of forest fires in the south of France.

Known as Canadian Water Bombers, the aircraft are specially-designed for firefighting and have been used around the world since 1994.
The sight was quickly captured on camera by a number of tourists before the plane dropped into the nearby lake.

It can carry up to 1,349 gallons of water and was aiding some 2,500 firefighters in France after they were called to the southern tip of the country to battle the blaze that spread across thousands of acres and destroyed homes – but spared the city of Marseilles

Vice-Admiral Charles-Henri Garrier, the commander of Marseille’s firefighter battalion, said: ‘Today, at this time, the fire is, as we say, mastered. That means that it is not expanding anymore. There are no visible flames.’

More than 3,000 hectares of land were destroyed throughout the Marseilles, Herault and Pyrenees-Orientales regions.

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A thousand residents from regions north of Marseilles such as Bitrolles and Pennes-Mirabeau had to spend the night in gymnasiums, and some woke up to see their homes destroyed.

The fires are the latest threat to the tourist industry in France which has suffered the impact of a terrorist attack in Nice, football violence at Euro 2016 in Marseille and strikes by various workers protesting at President Hollande’s planned labour reforms.

Discarded cigarettes or illegal barbecues were probably to blame for the fires and the hillsides were tinder dry this year after low winter rainfall and a particularly hot spring.

One man has been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with one of the fires.

There have been no serious injuries among locals or holidaymakers so far, but the emergency services said 20 firefighters had been treated for smoke inhalation and shock.

Courtesy : daily mail