French public broadcaster, domestic fatality and grid focus

France 24 reports 68,000 homes without power in Finistere after a heat-damaged transformer failed; notes that Meteo-France recorded the highest nationally-averaged daily temperature ever on 24 June (29.8C nationally, 44.3C locally at Pissos); maps the red-alert zones spreading north into Brittany by Thursday.

“A heat-damaged transformer left 68,000 homes without power in Finistere as France's heatwave spreads north, with a nationally-averaged temperature record broken.”