The Correns wildfire in the Var, France

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🔥 The #Correns fire, in the Var, is rapidly gaining intensity

📍The flames continue to advance, mobilising significant rescue resources
https://x.com/ferozwala/status/2083262202891714753?s=20

https://x.com/asso_psfdf/status/2083...132872/video/1
https://x.com/chematierra/status/208...905948/video/1

🚒🧑‍🚒Firefighters are engaged in the operation

📌 In the air, 6 Canadairs and 4 water-bomber helicopters support the ground teams

https://x.com/ferozwala/status/2083263004221821052

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Association Prévention & Signalement Feux De Forêt

Translated from French
🔥 The Canadair aircraft are currently scooping water from Lake Sainte-Croix to combat the Correns wildfire in the Var department

✈️ No fewer than 6 Canadair aircraft are engaged in this operation: 5 from the French Civil Security and 1 Croatian CL-415, deployed under the European Civil Protection Mechanism

💧 Lake Sainte-Croix allows the crews to perform rapid water scoops in order to chain together drops on the fire front

⚠️ The situation remains fluid. Avoid the area and let the emergency services operate under the best possible conditions
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📸 Patrick Hauc

🚫Avoid the area
🚒Facilitate access for emergency services

#incendie #FeuxDeForêt

https://x.com/asso_psfdf/status/2083225262678839680

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Association Prévention & Signalement Feux De Forêt

Translated from French
🔥 Massive deployment of resources on the Correns fire in the Var

🚒 More than 500 firefighters are mobilized, supported by rescue firefighters, the CCFF, the Communal Civil Security Reserve (RCSC), the ONF, as well as farmers

✈️ In the air, 14 water bomber aircraft are engaged to support the ground teams

🤝 An exceptional mobilization of numerous actors to try to contain the progression of the flames

⚠️ The situation remains evolving. Avoid the area and let the emergency services intervene under the best conditions
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📸 MmeRed RedSensei

🚫Avoid the area
🚒Facilitate access for emergency services

#incendie #FeuxDeForêt

https://x.com/asso_psfdf/status/2083239267338219549

Association Prévention & Signalement Feux De Forêt

Translated from French
🔥 All night long, numerous firefighters will remain mobilized on the Correns fire in the Var

At this hour, the flames continue to advance, and the night promises to be particularly challenging

✈️ Aerial resources, water bombers, unable to intervene at night, the emergency services will have to face the progression of the flames alone until daybreak

⚠️ The situation remains highly fluid. Avoid the area and allow the emergency services to operate under the best possible conditions
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📸 Association PSFDF

🚫Avoid the area
🚒Facilitate access for emergency services

#incendie #FeuxDeForêt
https://x.com/asso_psfdf/status/2083278965829984759

Association Prévention & Signalement Feux De Forêt

Translated from French
🔥 The Correns fire, in the Var, is still active this evening

🌳 The flames have already spread across 1,000 hectares

🚒 700 firefighters are mobilized to battle the blaze

✈️ They are supported by a substantial aerial unit consisting of 8 Canadair planes, 6 water-bomber helicopters, and 2 Dash-8 aircraft, which will soon have to halt their rotations due to nightfall

🏠 2,500 people have been evacuated as a safety measure

⚠️ The situation remains fluid. Avoid the area and let the emergency services operate under the best possible conditions
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📸 Alex Is

🚫Avoid the area
🚒Facilitate access for emergency services

#incendie #FeuxDeForêt


https://x.com/asso_psfdf/status/2083264169265050039

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ActuCenter

Translated from French
🔴🔥FLASH INFO - Situation at 10:00 PM in #Var:

▶️ The fire continues to progress and has covered more than 1,000 hectares in a few hours.

▶️ New evacuations are currently underway near the fire.

▶️ Homes have already been affected by the flames

https://x.com/ActuCenter/status/2083284639032975584

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Préfet du Var

Translated from French
#Wildfires | ❌This Saturday, August 1st, all massifs in #Var are closed.
⛔️Access, circulation, and work are prohibited in all massifs in the department.

🔴EXTREME fire risk for 2️⃣ massifs: la Sainte-Baume, le Haut-Var.

🔴VERY SEVERE fire risk for 7️⃣ massifs: les Monts Toulonnais, la Corniche des Maures, les Maures, le Centre-Var, l'Estérel, le plateau de Canjuers, and les îles d’Hyères.

❌Closure of the rest areas of Gonfaron, des Sigues, du Suvé du Vent, des Lauvets on the #A57 highway.

❌ Closure of the rest areas of Sainte-Hilaire and de Barcelone, de Candumy et Roudaï, and de Jas Peliquot on the #A8 highway.

☎ 18 or 112 to report a fire start.

📌 The map of the massifs and the regulations

https://x.com/Prefet83/status/2083258125784658121

ActuCenter

Translated from French
🔴🔥🕯️ BREAKING NEWS - Tragedy in #Var due to the wildfire.

▶️ Two horses trapped by the flames have died.


https://x.com/ActuCenter/status/2083286328729379011

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LCI
Translated from French
🔥 Fires in the Var: Fire restarts in Correns

New evacuations have been ordered. The Gros Bessillon fire, which had already burned 4,500 hectares, is reignited by a violent mistral wind and temperatures close to 40°C #Incendie #Var

https://x.com/LCI/status/2083224714424570159

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The town of Cotignac in the Var was also threatened by the wild fires.
𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 - 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊 ♱
@Reine_Margot2
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Jul 25
Translated from French
🚨Immersion, taking you to the heart of the #Pontevès #Cotignac fire—the #Var firefighters take you closest to those who, amid the smoke, heat, and noise, fight to protect the population, homes, animals, the forest...
Welcome to the other side of the screen, into the reality of the firefighters.
Var Firefighters Official.

https://x.com/Reine_Margot2/status/2081068062933926118

طقس_العالم ⚡️

Jul 22
Translated from Arabic
🇫🇷 France | Var Region

🔥 A massive forest fire is dangerously approaching homes in the town of Cotignac, in the Var region of southeastern France, amid thick rising smoke and ongoing efforts by firefighting teams to contain the flames.

🇫🇷 #France | #Cotignac

https://x.com/Arab_Storms/status/2079840786942918982

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Cotignac also has a history of sightings of the Holy Family.



Yves-Marie Sévillia

Jul 29
Translated from French
Notre-Dame, saved amidst a desert of ashes. #Notredamedegrâces #Cotignac #incendie #Var

https://x.com/SevilliaYves/status/2082529174946771435

𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 - 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊 ♱

Jul 23
Translated from French
#Cotignac is presented as the only village in the world where the Holy Family appeared in its entirety: the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus (in 1519) and Saint Joseph (in 1660). These distinct events, on two nearby hills (Mont Verdaille and Mont Bessillon), make it a unique pilgrimage site dedicated to the family.

The main apparitions.

August 10 and 11, 1519: The Virgin Mary appears to Jean de la Baume, a pious woodcutter, on Mont Verdaille. She holds the Child Jesus and is accompanied by Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
She requests that a church be built under the title of Our Lady of Graces and that processions come there to receive her graces. The cornerstone is laid quickly, and the sanctuary develops.

Important historical link: In 1637, a revelation related to this place (via Brother Fiacre) contributes to the prayers of Anne of Austria and Louis XIII for an heir. Louis XIV is born in 1638; in 1660, the young king and his mother come on pilgrimage to Cotignac to give thanks.

June 7, 1660: Saint Joseph appears to Gaspard Ricard, a young thirsty shepherd on Mont Bessillon. He instructs him to lift a rock, revealing a spring of water (which still flows). A chapel dedicated to Saint Joseph is built shortly afterward (consecrated in 1663); the site now hosts a monastery.

These facts are widely relayed by the sanctuaries themselves (Notre-Dame de Grâces, run by the Brothers of Saint John, and Saint-Joseph du Bessillon), the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, and pilgrimage websites. Cotignac is thus nicknamed the “village of the Holy Family.” Thousands of pilgrims, especially families, come there every year.

It is a place of Marian and Josephite devotion, recognized for its graces related to family, fertility, and paternal/maternal protection

https://x.com/Reine_Margot2/status/2080399755264344272

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Dr Gasman ⚫

Jul 23
Translated from French
Miracle of Saint Joseph at the Cotignac monastery. #feudeforet #incendie

Firefighters confirm the Cotignac miracle


https://x.com/C_Pantalon/status/2080286074379669646

Dr Gasman ⚫

Jul 23
Translated from French
“Thank you, Saint Joseph”: The Cotignac sanctuary saved by the skin of its teeth

[url]https://x.com/C_Pantalon/status/2080288783820308983

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euronews
@euronews
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Jul 22
Wildfires tear through Cotignac, often named France's most beautiful village 🔥

59 homes destroyed in hours, animals killed, monks and nuns forced to flee their monastery. The community of 2,500 is now rallying in the aftermath of its worst fire on record.


https://x.com/euronews/status/2079933622308548734