France's fight against fires continues

Efforts to extinguish fires in France's Hautes-Alpes, Vendee, Haute-Corse, Loire-Atlantique and Var provinces continue. [ French meteorological agency Meteo-France issued a "very high" fire risk alert for today in the provinces of Aude, Gard, Bouches-du-Rhone, Var and Vaucluse, and a "high" fire risk alert in 30 provinces, mostly in the southern parts of the country. According to local media, efforts to extinguish the fires that started yesterday afternoon in the Hautes-Alpes province in the southeast of the country are continuing.

More than 50 hectares of land burned in the fire, which affected the forest areas of the towns of Argentiere-la-Besse and Freissiniere in the province. The fire, which spread to large areas in a short time in the city of Taradeau in Var province, is being intervened by air and land with more than 350 firefighters and dozens of vehicles. While the fire, which burned an area of ​​approximately 200 hectares, is under control today, extinguishing efforts continue.

While more than 250 firefighters were mobilized to extinguish the fires in the Albertacce and Corte regions of the Haute-Corse province on the French island of Corsica, a total of 570 hectares of land burned in these fires. Approximately 3 thousand people were evacuated due to fires that broke out last night in the holiday resorts of Sables-d'Olonne and Saint-Jean-de-Monts in the Vendee province in the west of the country. More than 13 hectares of cultivation area was reduced to ashes in the fire, which was intervened by approximately 140 firefighters.

More than 10 hectares of land were destroyed in the fire that spread to the camping areas after a vehicle caught fire yesterday evening in the northeast of the city of Nantes. Approximately 150 firefighters and 45 vehicles continue to respond to the fire, from which approximately 200 people were evacuated. A fire broke out in the forest area around Bordeaux-Merignac Airport in the city of Bordeaux, in the Gironde province in the southwest of the country, after noon.

The images shared on social media showed moments when smoke rose around the airport due to the fire. French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced during the question session to the government in the National Assembly that 2 firefighters died during the intervention to the Merignac fire. In the statement made yesterday by the French government, it was stated that approximately 40 thousand hectares of land had been burned since the beginning of the year and that this figure exceeded the number recorded in the entire season in 2025.