Major Wildfire in Northern Catalonia Forces Evacuation of 3,000+ and Affects Three Campgrounds

A major wildfire in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of southern France near Perpignan remains active, having destroyed multiple campgrounds and displaced more than 3,000 holidaymakers across at least three sites on the Catalan coast. Mainstream reporting describes returning holidaymakers finding devastated sites, with burned-area figures unreconciled across mainstream estimates of roughly 700 to above 4,600 hectares and no official Sécurité civile or préfecture figure published. A large-scale regional response involving firefighters, military units, European and Romanian reinforcements is in progress; cause, casualty figures and insured-loss estimates have not been reported.

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