Nature fire in the south of France is spreading at lightning speed: already 8,000 hectares, two campsites and dozens of houses evacuated

A natural fire that broke out on Tuesday afternoon in the Aude department, in southern France, has spread over an area of 8,000 hectares in the Corbières, the front mountains of the Pyrenees, the prefecture reports. On Tuesday evening there was still 4,000 hectares. “The fire develops very quickly.”

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