Firefighters in France have contained the country's largest wildfire in decades, but authorities remain on high alert

The biggest wildfire in France for 75 years which devastated an area of southern France the size of Paris could “ reignite at any time ”, officials warned. The blaze, which killed a woman and injured 18 others, scorched through 39,537 acres of forest and villages after it erupted on Tuesday afternoon in the village of Ribaute in the Aude region.