Nearly 1,000 firefighters backed by water-dropping planes were on Friday battling a large forest fire in south-easternThirteen firefighters were reported to have been injured in Bordezac – the village where the fire started.
The service said 880 hectares had burned so far in two different sites. More than 900 firefighters and two planes were fighting the flames in the region. Near the Bordezac fire, villages were evacuated and roads closed. Laurent Joseph, a senior official in the neighbouring Bouches-du-Rhone region, told BFM TV that authorities expect to deal with the fire “for several days”.
The fire threaten the Cévennes, a mountainous region partially protected as a Unesco world heritage site that crosses a large section of south-east France. The regional administration on Friday banned people from entering several forests in the area until Monday “to reduce the risk of new fires starting”, while firefighters work to extinguish those still ablaze.France’s national meteorological service put several neighbouring areas on red alert on Friday for fire risks and France’s environment ministry warned citizens in the area to beware fire risks., from Greece to Portugal.
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