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A helicopter pours water on the still burning forest above the communes of Bitsch and Ried-Moerel, in Bietsch, Switzerland, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Swiss authorities have temporarily shut the airspace over a small part of southwestern Switzerland because recreational gliders in the area have endangered the work of emergency teams battling a persistent forest fire. The Federal Office of Civil Aviation says the restrictions in an airspace of up to 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) over a wooded mountainside near the town of Bitsch will last through next Friday. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

A helicopter pours water on the still burning forest above the communes of Bitsch and Ried-Moerel, in Bietsch, Switzerland, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Swiss authorities have temporarily shut the airspace over a small part of southwestern Switzerland because recreational gliders in the area have endangered the work of emergency teams battling a persistent forest fire. The Federal Office of Civil Aviation says the restrictions in an airspace of up to 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) over a wooded mountainside near the town of Bitsch will last through next Friday. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

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