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Overview
- A fast‑moving blaze in the Pyrénées‑Orientales has consumed more than 1,600 hectares, prompted targeted evacuations and sheltering, and left at least two people critically injured while about 700 firefighters and nine aerial assets fight the flames.
- On the Costa Brava near Bisbal d'Empordà fire crews have battled a fire that has burned thousands of hectares, confined coastal towns, sheltered roughly 150 people including dozens of children, and led Catalan police to arrest a suspect accused of starting the blaze with an angle grinder.
- Multiple other outbreaks persist in southern France, including a Drôme mountain fire that has grown to several hundred hectares in steep terrain and an Aude fire fixed but still requiring about 150 firefighters to extinguish hotspots.
- Authorities have mobilised hundreds of extra firefighters, military emergency units and civilian water‑bomber aircraft as road closures and local evacuations disrupt communities and put planned events such as a Tour de France stage at risk of rerouting or cancellation.
- Officials warned the season is beginning unusually early and stressed that most recent fires are human caused, citing low humidity and strong regional winds like the Tramontane as conditions that could prolong a long, intense fire season.