French firefighters and local authorities are maintaining a high alert in the south of the country, despite containing France's largest wildfire in decades, as forecasts of soaring temperatures threaten to reignite the devastating blaze.
The inferno, which raged for three days across more than 160 square kilometres (62 square miles) of the Aude wine region, claimed one life and forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes. Fuelled by hot and dry conditions, the blaze rapidly spread, its perimeter reaching 90 kilometres.
