{"id":53716,"date":"2025-08-08T04:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53716\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T04:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:50:10","slug":"massive-french-wildfire-spreads-more-slowly-but-not-yet-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53716\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive French wildfire spreads more slowly but not yet under control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fire&#8217;s progression is slowing down, but we are still dealing with an active fire,&#8221; the region&#8217;s deputy prefect Remi Recio told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Compared to yesterday, the progression has significantly decreased because the weather conditions have changed, notably the wind direction,&#8221; Le Monde newspaper quoted Recio as saying.<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/2hXHO6ffQYLlSY4gNY4pus\/5253b61334fe738353266899b17560fc\/_Reuters__France_wildfire_damage_August_2025.JPG\" alt=\"(Reuters) France wildfire damage August 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/_Reuters__France_wildfire_damage_August_2025.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nVehicles burnt in a wildfire stand, near Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, southern France, August 7, 2025. (REUTERS\/Abdul Saboor)<\/p>\n<p>Close to 2,000 firefighters were on the ground to fight any flare-ups. The territory the wildfire has gone through &#8211; around 17,000 hectares &#8211; was up slightly from the 16,000 recorded on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The battle isn&#8217;t over yet, the fire could reignite with greater force,&#8221; prefect Christian Pouget said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Consequence of climate change&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said the fire was the biggest one France has experienced since 1949. &#8220;This is a wildfire that is a consequence of climate change, of drought in this region,&#8221; she told France Info radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The fire&#8217;s progression is slowing down, but we are still dealing with an active fire,&#8221; the region&#8217;s deputy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66,11311],"class_list":["post-53716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}