Shanghai Gold Exchange gold T+D closed up 0.79% at 901.6 yuan/gram in evening trade on Sep 29; silver T+D closed up 0.57% at 14,875 yuan/kg.

French authorities said on the 28th that the country's largest wildfire in nearly 80 years has been fully extinguished after burning for about two months. The blaze began in July in Gironde province, burned roughly 42,000 hectares (around 37,000 ha completely destroyed), forced about 224,000 people to evacuate and threatened Cap Ferret and Bordeaux suburbs. More than 3,300 firefighters were deployed in what officials described as the largest firefighting operation in modern French civil-protection history; the fire was brought under control on Aug. 1 but smoldered underground for weeks before being fully put out. There were no reported deaths; the last comparable fire in the same region was in 1949, at about 50,000 ha.

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