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LIVE: France Wildfires Rage as Thousands Flee Destruction

French firefighters were battling on Thursday to contain the country’s biggest wildfire in several decades. READ MORE: https://www.thetimes.com/article/f59e... The blaze in southern France has burnt more than 16,000 hectares, killed one person and forced thousands of residents to flee. “The fire has not been brought under control,” Christophe Magny, one of the officials leading the firefighting operation, told BFM TV on Thursday. Since Tuesday the fire, in the southern department of Aude, has swept through an area bigger than Paris. Officials have said it is France’s biggest wildfire since 1949. On Wednesday 2,000 firefighters tackled the blaze with the help of water-bombing aircraft, but officials said it was still out of control and spreading fast. Jacques Piraux, the mayor of Jonquières, said that 80 per cent of his village had been burnt. “It looks like a lunar landscape. It’s hellish,” he said. The village and several campsites were evacuated. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Find us on Facebook:   / timesandsundaytimes   Find us on Twitter:   / thetimes   Find us on Instagram:   / thetimes   #livestream #france #wildfires