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Chancellor Merz Thanks Helpers in the Forest Fire Area in NRW

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After the forest fire in the North Rhine-Westphalian Hürtgenwald the chancellor thanked the helpers. His visit was too late, local residents say. But the rescue forces praise the chancellor's timing.

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Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to improve protection against climate-related major damage events. At the conference of the Federal Cabinet on Tuesday and Wednesday ... The post "This is climate change": Merz shares due to forest fires against "climate change deniers" from appeared first on Apollo News.

·Berlin, Germany
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Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz has declared the forest fire in the North Rhine-Westphalian Hürtgenwald as proof of climate change. "I want to say to all the deniers of climate change: Look at exactly what happened here. That's climate change," said the CDU politician during a visit to the fire area on Saturday. A statement that could probably have come from a green chancellor: Two days after the removal of the devastating forest fire in the E…

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Around a week after the heavy forest fire near Hürtgenwald, Chancellor Merz visited the community in North Rhine-Westphalia and thanked the operatives. Without the cooperation of fire brigade, Bundeswehr, Technische Hilfswerk, agriculture and forestry, the forest fire would not have been so glamorous, said Merz.

·Germany
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After his summer vacation the chancellor visits the forest fire area Hürtgenwald. The fire there has been extinguished since Thursday. There were also protests.

The first public date after his holiday takes the chancellor to a disaster area. A councillor clears the rumor that Merz had not taken care of himself.

·Frankfurt, Germany
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After his holiday, Federal Chancellor Merz visits the forest fire area in NRW. There, he is welcomed in a friendly way – but the protest is great.

·Berlin, Germany
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wdr.de broke the news on Saturday, August 22, 2026.
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