US EditionFirefighters battle to prevent reignition of France’s largest wildfire as residents return home
AUDE, FRANCE, AUG 9 – The wildfire burned over 160 square kilometers, causing one death and 25 injuries, as firefighters continue monitoring hot spots despite reopened roads and forest access bans.
- About 1,400 firefighters were deployed on Saturday in France's southern Aude region to prevent the country's largest wildfire in decades from reigniting, as all residents were allowed to return to their homes.
- The blaze left one person dead and 25 people have been injured, including 19 firefighters.
- High temperatures in the coming days are expected to complicate firefighters' efforts, with France's national weather agency issuing a high vigilance alert for heat wave in the southern half of the country.
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ledauphine.com
The fire is well underway, but the 1,300 firefighters and residents of Corbières, in the Aude region, fear on Sunday that the hot, dry tramontane wind and the heatwave will encourage the fire to flare up again.
To extinguish the fire in the Aude, 1,400 firefighters are still on the ground, drowning every place where the fire could resume. They keep in memory those hours where the flames were the most vivid. Thibaud, volunteer firefighter in Lagrasse, one of the very first on the ground, tells this fire on TF1. - "I thought, it's there, it's there" : first firefighters in front of the terrible fire of the Aude, they testify (Pro life and employment).
With its ashes still smoking in places, the fire of an exceptional magnitude, which ravaged the massif des Corbières, will not be controlled until Sunday evening, announced the firefighters who expect a difficult weekend end. ...
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Firefighters battle to prevent reignition of France’s largest wildfire as residents return home
About 1,400 firefighters have been deployed in France's southern Aude region to prevent the country's largest wildfire in decades from reigniting.
leprogres.fr
The fire that affects the Corbières massif is fixed, but it will not be controlled until Sunday evening, at the earliest, estimated the authorities this Saturday.
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