Overview

• As of the morning of July 9, the wildfire has receded from Marseille’s outskirts and is no longer advancing into the city.
• Marseille Provence Airport reopened at 9:30 a.m. under caution after a midday shutdown, although some flights and train services remain disrupted.
• Restrictions in the city’s 16th arrondissement have been lifted, but firefighters caution that hotspots persist in peri-urban areas north of Marseille.
• Over 1,000 firefighters, supported by aerial water drops, are battling to secure roughly 700 hectares of burnt land near Les Pennes-Mirabeau.
• The blaze, fanned by winds up to 70 kph during a record heatwave, highlights the growing wildfire threat in southern France.