{"id":505833,"date":"2026-07-02T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:51:09","slug":"big-wildfires-hit-dry-southern-france-fanned-by-30c-heat-and-strong-wind-gusts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505833\/","title":{"rendered":"Big wildfires hit dry southern France, fanned by 30C heat and strong wind gusts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Conditions on the ground were difficult for firefighters, with no access routes in the hilly terrain. Water-dumping aircraft were being used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Temperatures of around 30C combined with strong wind gusts drove the spread of the fire through low, very dry vegetation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">About 200 people were evacuated or confined in the communes of Pouzols\u2011Minervois and Mailhac, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe smoke was so thick, so suffocating that firefighters told us to leave,\u201d said one evacuated woman, Danielle, 99, from Pouzols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Two smaller blazes broke out in Rognac and Lancon\u2011Provence near Marseille, according to local firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conditions on the ground were difficult for firefighters, with no access routes in the hilly terrain. Water-dumping aircraft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[50749,95,8834,3595,49062,15974,273,40488,141997,23546,1221,20590,3191,3594,3242,111,139,69,384,92644,3048,147,14729,1321,171,18835,1865,87115,4143,10000],"class_list":["post-505833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-30c","tag-and","tag-big","tag-by","tag-dry","tag-emergency","tag-environment","tag-evacuated","tag-fanned","tag-forcing","tag-france","tag-gusts","tag-heat","tag-hit","tag-large","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-raged","tag-said","tag-science","tag-scores","tag-services","tag-southern","tag-strong","tag-today","tag-wildfire","tag-wildfires","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}