(7 Aug 2025)
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Villerouge la Cremade, Aude region – 7 August 2025
1. Various of fire and smoke in a wooded area
2. Wide of fire vehicles
3. Various of fire and smoke in a wooded area
STORYLINE:
France’s largest wildfire in decades continued to burn and spread on Thursday, albeit at a slower pace, having already ravaged more than 16,000 hectares in the south of the country and killed one person, local authorities said.
The blaze, which started on Tuesday and quickly spread through a region battling weeks of dry and hot weather, remained uncontained.
However, a drop in temperature overnight combined with weakening winds helped improve the situation.
The fire has swept through 15 communes in the Corbières massif, destroying or damaging at least 36 homes, with a full damage assessment still underway.
One person died in their home, and at least 13 others were injured, including 11 firefighters, according to local authorities.
Three people were reported missing, the Aude prefecture added.
An investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the fire, which has left behind a landscape of total devastation, with tree skeletons left in a lunar landscape of ashes.
Meanwhile, residents have been urged to remain confined to their homes “unless evacuation orders are issued by the fire department.”
Those who have already been evacuated were sheltered overnight in temporary accommodation centers in 17 municipalities.
AP video shot by Hernan Munoz and German Martinez
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