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On the Mediterranean side, a first fire started on the night of July 4, 2025, north of Marseille. Two more started in the afternoon, in the Hérault and in the Aude. Departments on heat alert, and where the wind will strengthen in the coming hours. The A9 motorway had to be cut off between Sète and Montpellier. Instead, during the day, it was the Bouches-du-Rhône that were in flames. (Regions).
A major fire on the Gardiole massif caused the closure of the A9 between Orange and Narbonne, stirred by a swirling wind A fire was declared on Saturday at the beginning of the afternoon
More than 200 firefighters have already been mobilized to try to remove the flames that have arisen in the town of Fabrègues and are now spreading towards Vic-la-Gardiole.
While a thick smoke column is visible this Saturday around Fabrègues, a commune near Montpellier, four Canadair and 200 firefighters are mobilized to extinguish the fire. Several motorways are closed to traffic in the region.
The first major fires of the season broke out on Saturday in the Bouches-du-Rhône and the Hérault, and again in the Aude, three departments still under the heat, causing the A9 motorway to be cut off in the middle of the holiday weekend.
A fire broke out on Saturday 5 July 2025 at the beginning of the afternoon after exit 33 in the direction of Orange between Sète and Montpellier. The motorway is closed in both directions between Sète and Lunel in the Hérault. Residents and a factory were evacuated.
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