Marseille airport suspends flights as wildfire continues to burn
More than 1,000 firefighters were deployed to tackle the fire, which broke out near the town of Les Pennes-Mirabeau before racing toward Marseille
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00:00TV footage showed light smoke giving the sky over Marseille's old port a dusty aspect as water-dropping planes tried to extinguish the fire on the outskirts of the city.
00:13The prefecture urged people in the affected areas to stay indoors and off the roads.
00:19At the city's airport, people waited for information about their flights.
00:23Many were eventually cancelled, including for Adele Cabane, who was hoping to travel to Cairo.
00:30When I was going to the airport, I was smelling a lot of smoke into my house.
00:37So I hope that the firefighters can't just stop the fire before the houses.
00:43And I really hope that nobody is touched, but I don't know for the moment.
00:47And the wind is very, very strong, so of course it's emphasizing the fire.
00:53There have been no reports of casualties.
00:56Several weeks of heat waves combined with strong winds have increased the risk of wildfires in southern France,
01:03with several breaking out over the past couple of days.
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