The blaze, which has grown to nearly 40,000 acres, was the country’s biggest since 1949, the civil defense chief said.

Prime Minister François Bayrou described the nearly 40,000-acre fire, which has killed one person, as a “catastrophe on an ...

Wildfires in south-western France are the worst in 75 years, according to experts, with the prime minister lamenting a ...

France is battling its largest wildfire in decades, which has already burned more than 60 square miles in the south and ...

France’s biggest wildfire in years was spreading quickly Wednesday in a Mediterranean region near Spain after leaving one ...

The southern French department of Aude is still battling what officials have called the “largest fire of the summer,” with ...

The Aude region is located in the south west of France, close to the borders of Spain and Andorra. The nearest large city is ...

A massive wildfire that has scorched through 16,000 hectares of forest and villages in southern France since Tuesday has lost ...

The largest forest fire declared in France since 1949 remains uncontrolled despite the deployment of an unprecedented number ...

Firefighters battled for a third day on Thursday to contain France's biggest wildfire in nearly eight decades, which has ...

A wildfire burning in the south of France has grown to become the country’s biggest since 1949. It has claimed one life and burned more than 16,000 hectares - an area one and a half times the size of ...

Mediterranean countries are a growing wildfire hotspot, with scientists warning that climate change is driving increasingly ...