Overview

• Officials declared the Corbières fire contained on Sunday after it burned across 16,000 hectares, but hotspot suppression continues and full extinction may take days to weeks.
• Some 1,300 firefighters and 58 military personnel remain deployed with bulldozers, ground patrols and aerial assets ready to douse flare-ups along the 90 km perimeter.
• Météo-France has placed the Aude under a red heatwave warning with tramontane winds gusting up to 55 km/h, intensifying the risk of reactivation.
• The blaze has claimed one civilian life, injured multiple residents and 19 firefighters, and destroyed 36 homes along with over 20 agricultural hangars.
• Judicial authorities in Carcassonne and on-site gendarmes have opened an inquiry into a roadside ignition but have not yet determined the cause.