More than 100 wounds with wild fires near Marseille

About 110 people were injured in a massive fast -moving fire that reached the outer edge of Marseille, the second largest city in France.

Interior Minister Bruno Retailio said that about 800 firefighters were at the scene and that the efforts to confront the fire will continue “throughout the night”, as the fire has not yet been contained.

“The marine firefighters battalion launching guerrilla warfare and hoses is at hand,” the mayor of the city, Benno Bayan, said, in reference to the service of fire and saving Marseille.

At least 400 people were evacuated from their homes, according to the French media. It is said that nine firefighters were injured.

The residents were warned against staying inside and urged not to evacuate unless they are directed to that, so the roads will be clear for emergency vehicles.

At its peak, the fire spread at a rate of 1.2 km (0.7 miles) per minute, according to the mayor, according to the French broadcaster BFMTV. He blamed a group of wind storms, thick vegetable cover, and sharp slopes.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who was on a government visit to the United Kingdom, expressed his support for firefighters and called on residents to follow safety instructions.

“Our ideas with the injured and all the population,” wrote on X.

Interior Minister Retario arrived in Marseille on Tuesday evening, where he met local officials.

The Marseille Airport, Provence, said it will partially reopen from 21:30 local time (19:30 GMT) after closing for many hours from midday on Tuesday. “He has never tested a situation of this size,” said the airport president, Julian Kovinier.

The fire, which erupted earlier on Tuesday, was said near Bens-Merrabo, north of Marseille, covered about 700 hectares (7 kilometers).

The local authorities said that the fire arose a car in which the fire was caught on the highway.

“It is very great – until the end of the world,” Monic Pilad, a city resident, told Reuters. She said that many of her neighbors had already left.

Footage of huge columns of smoke showed Marseille, where fire broke out in a mountainous area to the north.

Bouches-Du-Rhône has not registered one drop of rain since May 19, according to BFMTV.

Elsewhere in France, there are still other hashtag fires that started near Narbonne on Monday, and the winds of 60 km/h (40 miles per hour) are still. Local officials said about 2000 hectares had been burned.

Forest fires were also reported in other parts of Europe, including the Catalonia region in northeastern Spain, where more than 18,000 people were ordered to stay at home on Tuesday due to the wild fires in the eastern province of Taragona.

Emergency units were deployed along with 300 firefighters while the strong winds during the night had participated in the fire, which spread over nearly 3000 hectares (7,413 acres) of the ground.

Several other parts of Spain – which witnessed the most important June ever – were at a maximum alert of forest fires.

In Greece, about 41 fires erupted throughout the country on Monday. Among them, 34 were contained early while seven active remained on Monday evening, according to the firefighting service.

A large part of West and Southern Europe was exposed to a incendiary heat wave in the early summer, which sparked fires that witnessed thousands that were evacuated from their homes.