Marseille airport suspends flights due to wildfire as public warned to stay at home
A big city hospital switched to generator power, train traffic was halted in most of the surrounding area, and some roads were closed and others tangled with logjams.
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. Some 720 hectares (acres) were hit by the blaze, the prefecture said.
Nine firefighters were injured, according to the prefecture, or local administration. No dead have been reported.
The prefecture said in a statement Tuesday evening that ''the situation is under control,″ though the fire has not yet been extinguished. It described the fire as ''particularly virulent.″
It came on a cloudless, windy day after a lengthy heat wave around Europe left the area parched and at heightened risk for wildfires. Several have broken out in southern France in recent days.
Light gray smoke gave the sky over Marseille's old port a dusty aspect as water-dropping planes tried to extinguish the fire in the outskirts of the city, which has some 900,000 inhabitants.
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