France’s biggest wildfire in years was spreading quickly Wednesday in a Mediterranean region near Spain after leaving one person dead and several injured, authorities said. The fire burned an area larger than Paris,

More than 1,000 people were evacuated from their homes after a wildfire broke out in the popular beach town of Tarifa, in the Andalusian region of southern Spain. A forest fire has also raged in southern France, the biggest blaze the country has experienced 'in decades'.

A woman has died in her home in Aude, southern France, as fires spread across 11,000 hectares burning 25 homes.

France's biggest wildfire this summer has been brought under control, authorities said Thursday, after it killed one person and destroyed thousands of hectares of land and dozens of homes in the south.

The French blaze, which started on Tuesday in the southern Aude department, is the largest wildfire in the country this summer. It has so far killed one person and injured 13 others, two of them seriously.

The inferno has spread across 11,000 hectares of land over 12 hours, an area roughly equivalent to the French capital, making it the largest wildfire in France so far this summer. Southern Europe has seen multiple large fires this summer.