US Edition"We Already See the Cloud of Smoke": the Firefighters of Morbihan Arrived in Reinforcement in the Aude
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On the morning of Thursday, 7 August, firefighters failed to prevent the fire from continuing its devastating course.
In front of the fire in the Aude, the teams of the 20H TF1 were earlier in the day of 6 August 2025 in Jonquières. They accompanied Christophe, a farmer who knows the region by heart. It is in this capacity that he helps the firefighters by opening the way to them. They were moreover on the road when the wind turned. Watering of the walls and the ground, clearing... To protect their houses, the inhabitants try everything, waiting to know whether…
Three years after the terrible summer of 2022, which had seen the pine forests of Gironde and Landes consumed for long weeks, the 2025 fire season is one of the most devastating of the century. With more and more rapid fires.
As Aude burns, Ariège is under pressure and fears an outbreak. Wild deposits, drought and heat reinforce a more insidious fire risk than it seems, alert firefighters.
The vast fire has already covered 16,000 hectares in the Corbières massif. In this territory considered a sensitive point of the planetary overheating, the intensification of heats and drought has greatly increased the risks, remind scientists.
Attracted by strong wind and high temperatures, the flames caused the biggest fire of the summer in a single evening. Inhabitants, rescuers and politicians tell of this disaster.
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