Officials warn the fire could reignite amid a forecasted heatwave, with 1,000 people still unable to return home and over 1,300 homes without power. View on euronews

French firefighters and local authorities are maintaining a high alert in the south of the country, despite containing France's largest wildfire in decades, as forecasts of soaring temperatures threaten to reignite the devastating blaze.

Firefighters have brought under control the largest fire to hit southern France in decades, officials said on Thursday evening. Over 2,000 firefighters and 200 police officers, supported by firefighting planes and helicopters,

Firefighters in southern France worked on Thursday (August 7) to halt the country’s largest wildfire of the summer, which has claimed one life, injured more than a

The biggest wildfire in France for 75 years which devastated an area of southern France the size of Paris could “ reignite at any time ”, officials warned. The blaze, which killed a woman and injured 18 others, scorched through 39,537 acres of forest and villages after it erupted on Tuesday afternoon in the village of Ribaute in the Aude region.