{"id":321203,"date":"2025-08-06T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321203\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:55:10","slug":"wildfire-rages-in-southwestern-france-closing-highway-dw-08-06-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321203\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire rages in southwestern France, closing highway \u2013 DW \u2013 08\/06\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/wildfires\/t-58764432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire<\/a> in the Corbieres hills in southern France, inland from the Mediterranean coast, has already closed a major highway and left two people injured, one critically, local officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities shut parts of the A9 motorway linking <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/france\/t-19065412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> to <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/spain\/t-18996264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a> on Tuesday. The section between the cities of Perpignon and Narbonne in both directions has been affected, France&#8217;s fire agency said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Camping grounds and one village were partially evacuated in Aude department, and several local roads were closed.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/emmanuel-macron\/t-38774225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> said on X the fire was progressing and that &#8220;all the nation&#8217;s resources were mobilized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"73542199\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73542199_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"A Canadair CL-415 of the French civil security flies over thick black smoke from a wildfire in southwestern France on August 5, 2025. \" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>More than 1,200 firefighters are being mobilized, supported by water bomber planesImage: Idriss Bigou-Gilles\/AFP<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire is spreading very quickly because the weather conditions are unfavorable. It&#8217;s one of the driest areas in the department and the wind is strong,&#8221; Lucie Roesch, secretary general of Aude prefecture, told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,200 firefighters have been mobilized to battle the flames, supported by water bomber planes, Aude prefecture said on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tweet embed\" data-id=\"1952865813104607640\"\/>\n<p>By late Tuesday evening, the fire had already burned some 9,200 hectares, according to France&#8217;s Le Monde newspaper, citing Aude prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted on X Tuesday afternoon by the French Fire Brigade showed flames roaring behind a village and the sky dark with smoke.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tweet embed\" data-id=\"1952812714474016838\"\/>\n<p>Edited by: Srinivas Mazumdaru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildfire in the Corbieres hills in southern France, inland from the Mediterranean coast, has already closed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-321203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114979099236981636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}