Southern France wildfire 'catastrophe on unprecedented scale': PM

Unprecedented French Firestorm: 'Catastrophe Linked to Global Warming'

Wildfires rage across southern France, leaving devastation in their wake.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou called the raging wildfires engulfing a region of southern France "a catastrophe on an unprecedented scale." "What is happening today is linked to global warming and linked to drought," Bayrou said during a visit to the Aude department, one of the areas hardest hit by the blazes.