Officials warn the fire could reignite amid a forecasted heatwave, with 1,000 people still unable to return home and over 1,300 homes without power.View on euronews

Villerouge La Cremade, France — Firefighters who helped contain France’s largest wildfire in decades were on high alert Friday because of forecasts of very high temperatures that could reignite the blaze in the south of the country, while fires prompted evacuations elsewhere in the Mediterranean region.

Prime Minister François Bayrou described the nearly 40,000-acre fire, which has killed one person, as a “catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.”