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Remembering Rep. Charlie Rangel — and a voicemail I’ll never forget

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I didn’t recognize the «917» New York number that called me.

But there was no question about who phoned after they left a message.

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The caller on the voicemail was utterly unmistakable.

They didn’t say their name.

They didn’t have to.

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«Chad, you’re the only one who missed me,» croaked the voice.

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It carried the sleekness of a stone crusher working over basalt in a West Virginia quarry.

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The voicemail was from the late Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. And he was essentially calling to assure me that he wasn’t dead.

After all, I was apparently the only member of the congressional press corps who noticed that the New York Democrat hadn’t voted nor been anywhere near the U.S. Capitol in several weeks.

There was no article in Roll Call. Nothing in Politico. No statement from his office.

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Rangel just wasn’t around.

Former Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. — a man whose tenure on Capitol Hill I have many fond memories of — died Monday. He was 94. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

So I called and wound up speaking to his communications director Hannah Kim and chief of staff George Henry.

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I inquired if Rangel was all right. They assured me he was. But they didn’t quite give me the full story. That was for Rangel to do.

And then Rangel himself called — from his sickbed — so I could hear his signature jackhammer-chopping-through-the-asphalt-of-Manhattan voice to prove to this reporter he was still among the living.

«I wanted you to hear it from me,» said Rangel.

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It was 2012. Rangel was out because of a back injury and a viral infection, which made it difficult for him to stand for long periods of time. From 2008 through late 2010, I dogged Rangel through the halls of Congress on a daily basis as the veteran congressman grappled with an ethics scandal. The ethics case culminated in the House censuring Rangel, permanently smudging his record as a war hero, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

First elected to the House in 1970, Rangel’s star had dimmed after the ethics scandal. But in 2012, any information about an elderly, legendary congressman like Rangel was newsworthy. So, as a reporter on the Capitol Hill beat, I appreciated the phone call as he described the excruciating pain that beset him.

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It’s possible the Ethics Committee investigation and censure by the House were more agonizing for Rangel than the back problem. Rangel was so confident that he didn’t violate House rules that he referred himself to the Ethics Committee.

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Rangel’s woes with the Ethics Committee might as well have been more painful for him than his back problems. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Rangel started to feel the ethics heat in 2008. He used his position as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to solicit funds for a school in his name at City College of New York. He failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes or rental income on a villa he owned in the Dominican Republic. 

A rent-controlled apartment in Harlem doubled as a campaign office. He improperly parked his broken-down, 1972 silver Mercedes-Benz in the garage of the Rayburn House Office Building. The House prohibits lawmakers from using the garage for storage. The Benz lacked plates, wasn’t registered and apparently hadn’t been driven in about four years. A Falls Church, Virginia, towing company lugged the car out of the garage on Sept. 19, 2008.

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Video of the tow-truck hauling away the Mercedes-Benz from Rayburn would have made a juicy story the next morning on TV. But Rangel caught a break.

Sort of.

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Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., summoned then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to Capitol Hill that night. The U.S. economy teetered on the verge of an epic financial collapse. By nightfall, it was clear just how bad the nation’s economy was. Everyone temporarily forgot about Rangel. In fact, the inoperable Benz may have been in better shape than some American car companies at that moment.

But the House Ethics Committee was investigating Rangel. An inquiry started in 2009 and culminated in his censure on the House floor in 2010. The House voted 333-79 to discipline Rangel. A somber Rangel presented himself in the well of the House chamber, hands folded in front of him as though he were about to receive Communion. Pelosi doled out her admonition from the dais and lightly rapped the gavel.

«He violated the public trust,» said then-Ethics Committee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.

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It was the first censure of a House member in 27 years.

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Years after the fact, I half-jokingly suggested that Rangel could blame his Ethics Committee problems on me. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Years later, I half-jokingly told Rangel that he could blame me for his problems with the Ethics Committee.

As stated earlier, it was Rangel who believed his actions were beyond reproach. So he sent himself before the Ethics Committee to review his conduct.

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I entered the Capitol one morning in 2008 and discovered his longtime aide, Emile Milne, wandering the basement. I asked Milne what he was looking for. He waived an overstuffed envelope at me.

«The Ethics Committee,» said Milne.

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This was the actual «self-referral» to the Ethics Committee. And Milne was the courier of a dossier Rangel would use to defend himself.

I knew exactly where the Ethics Committee was located in those days in the Capitol catacombs. So I escorted Milne to the door.

As I said, I told Rangel he could blame all of his problems on me.

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I recall one instance in which Rangel, hounded by the press, fired back at them with his name, rank and serial number — the only things a prisoner of war is obliged to provide. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Between 2008 and 2010, I staked out Rangel somewhere at the Capitol nearly every day. The day Pelosi summoned him to her office. The day Pelosi removed him as Ways and Means Committee chairman. The day he spoke at length on the House floor to defend himself against the allegations after the ethics panel formalized its inquiry.

One night, a scrum of reporters caught Rangel in the hallway off the House floor and pelted him with a barrage of questions. Rangel briefly answered. Then deflected. He then decided he had enough as scribes fired questions at him with the speed of a Gatling gun.

Rangel sighed, exasperated at what to do.

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«Sergeant Charles B. Rangel. 85718162!» hollered Rangel. «And that’s all I’m going to say about it!»

It’s unclear if the other reporters understood what just happened. But I did.

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Rangel served in the Army during the Korean War. He was wounded in the back by shrapnel and eventually led dozens of men out of a firefight and to safety. Multiple soldiers died, and others were taken prisoner. Rangel received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star with valor.

Rangel survived that day. But back on Capitol Hill, the news cycle had effectively taken Rangel prisoner. So he complied with the terms of the Geneva Convention. A prisoner of war is only compelled to provide enemy captors their name, rank and serial number. And after absorbing heavy fire from the press corps, Rangel had only one option.

It’s notable that someone with Rangel’s military record and Army service passed away on Memorial Day.

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Rangel, a decorated veteran, died on Memorial Day. (Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

In August 2008, Rangel published his autobiography entitled «And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since.» The book chronicles how a high school dropout joined the Army and was wounded on the battlefield. Rangel chose to continue — eventually winding up in Congress as one of the most important lawmakers of the last 50 years. But Rangel then faced one of the harshest punishments Congress could dole out. It cost him his chairmanship and upended his reputation.

But Rangel was often philosophical about his fate and transgressions in Congress. He argued that despite the trouble, he still hadn’t had a bad day since that fateful battle in Kunu-ri, Korea in late 1950.

Back in 2012, I may have been the only one who noticed that Rangel was absent when he was suffering from a back issue and viral infection.

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But I certainly won’t be the only one today.

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Pro-life group celebrates Planned Parenthood’s closing of remaining Louisiana facilities: ‘Huge success’

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EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood is set to shutter its last two Louisiana facilities next month, a move pro-life advocates say represents «success» amid efforts to shut down the organization.

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In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, 40 Days for Life CEO and founder Shawn Carney said the closure of the clinics is a «huge victory» for the entire pro-life movement and his organization, which has prayed and held vigils outside Planned Parenthood facilities for roughly 20 years.

«The only remaining Planned Parenthoods in the state of Louisiana, in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, are closing because they can’t do abortions there,» Carney said. «Planned Parenthood survives financially on abortions, and they survive financially on the American taxpayer. This is a huge success for the pro-life movement.»

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast — which runs six clinics in the Houston, Texas, area and two in Louisiana — announced it will close its Baton Rouge and New Orleans clinics on Sept. 30.

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Shawn Carney, CEO and founder of 40 Days for Life, stated the closure of more Planned Parenthood facilities is a «huge victory» for the pro-life movement. (Fox News Digital/Landon Mion)

Planned Parenthood previously announced the closure of the Prevention Park and Southwest centers in the Houston area, one of which was the largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere. The remaining Houston facilities will be acquired by the organization’s largest Texas affiliate.

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Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast President Melaney Linton said in a statement that the closures in Louisiana are a «direct result of relentless political assaults.»

«This is not a decision we wanted to make; it is one we were forced into by political warfare,» she wrote. «Anti-reproductive health lawmakers obsessed with power and control have spent decades fighting the concept that people deserve to control their own bodies.»

Linton said «extremist» Republican lawmakers have done everything in their power to defund Planned Parenthood, adding: «Every health center closure, every patient who goes without care, every undetected cancer and untreated infection is on those lawmakers’ hands.»

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Facilities in GOP-led states with abortion restrictions, including Louisiana and Texas, have also been forced to cease the procedures following the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe V. Wade and returned the power to make laws regarding abortion back to the states.

GOP officials in recent years have made repeated attempts to shut down Planned Parenthood, even after nearly all abortions were banned under state law in Louisiana and Texas, as well as other Republican-controlled states.

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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) celebrated the pending closures of the remaining Planned Parenthood facilities in the state in a post on X, writing that abortion «should NEVER be considered healthcare.» (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Louisiana Republican Gov. Jeff Landry wrote on X that the Planned Parenthood closures in his state mark a «major win for the pro-life movement» in his state, adding that he has fought to «rid our state of this failed organization» and that abortion «should NEVER be considered healthcare.»

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The state’s Attorney General Liz Murrill, also a Republican, wrote that the Planned Parenthood clinic closures are «welcome news.» 

«Planned Parenthood built its business around promoting death. Louisiana chooses life. We will always protect women and babies,» she wrote.

While Planned Parenthood is not allowed to provide abortion procedures in Louisiana, it has helped women access out-of-state abortions.

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Planned Parenthood facilities have been shuttering in various states across the country, including California and New York, where the organization is selling its only Manhattan health center building for $39 million.

«This will be the 40th Planned Parenthood to close in 2025,» Carney said. I suspect before September 30, which is the end of their fiscal year, that we will see about 25 to 30 more Planned Parenthoods close, maybe more.»

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Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast announced it will close its Baton Rouge and New Orleans clinics on Sept. 30. (Getty Images)

The Trump administration has sought to impose funding cuts to Planned Parenthood that could lead to the closure of additional facilities. A provision in a GOP-backed spending bill would end Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from the program in 2023, although that provision is facing legal challenges and has been blocked, at least for now, by a federal judge.

«Planned Parenthood is in the worst shape in their entire history, and they were before the fall of Roe V. Wade and before their defunding,» Carney said.

Carney predicted that Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country will continue to merge, just as Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast is set to do. Former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life activist Abby Johnson recently made a similar prediction in an interview with Fox News Digital.

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«The suffering ones, like Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, will end up merging with some of these other affiliates that they used to just compete against for abortion numbers,» Carney said. «I think you’ll see these closures lead to them not rebuilding, but just going away in some parts of the country and merging with other affiliates throughout the rest of America.»

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Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast President Melaney Linton said the closures in Louisiana are a «direct result of relentless political assaults.» (Getty Images)

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«If they’re a nonprofit, they can go out and do what all nonprofits do, what we do and churches do, and that’s go out and raise money,» he continued. «And if people want to support your mission, they will. You shouldn’t be dependent on the federal government, and this just highlighted how dependent they were.»

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Carney also noted that Planned Parenthood lost 78,000 individual donors last year, emphasizing that the organization is not only at risk of potentially losing public funding.

Addressing Planned Parenthood’s claim that abortions make up only 3% of its services, Carney said that is «complete garbage» and pointed to the shuttering of facilities in Republican-controlled states with abortion bans.

«It’s like McDonald’s saying that only 3% of their business is selling french fries,» he said. «If that were true, they wouldn’t be closing all these facilities in pro-life states where you can’t do abortions. So that’s hardly believable anymore in 2025.»

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ISIS soldiers behead Christians in Mozambique, burning church and homes: ‘Silent genocide’

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International observers are reporting that ISIS-aligned soldiers are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa – with some of the most brutal attacks happening in the nation of Mozambique.

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The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) – a counter-terrorism research nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. – is sounding that alarm about what it describes as a «silent genocide» taking place against Christians.  

The Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) recently released 20 photos boasting of four attacks on «Christian villages» in the Chiure district, in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, according to MEMRI. 

MEMRI said the photos show ISIS operatives raiding villages and burning a church and homes. The images also allegedlydepict the beheadings of a member of what the jihadists consider «infidel militias» and two Christian civilians. Rampaging jihadist groups celebrated the killings. Photos also showed the corpses of several members of those so-called «infidel militias,» according to the institute’s analysis. 

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«What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community,» MEMRI Vice President Alberto Miguel Fernandez told Fox News Digital. 

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ISIS operatives raided Christian villages and burned homes in Mozambique. (Middle East Media Research Institute)

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«That jihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa – take over the whole country or most of several countries – is dangerous,» Fernandez, a former U.S. diplomat, said. «It’s very dangerous for the national security of the United States let alone the security of the poor people who are there – Christians or Muslims or whoever they are.» 

The Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) also recently released several photos of their own documenting a July 27 attack against the Christian village of Komanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province. Islamic State-affiliated soldiers opened fire at a Catholic Church and set fire to homes, stores, vehicles and possessions. At least 45 people were killed, according to MEMRI. The photos show burning facilities and the corpses of Christians. 

Fernandez explained to Fox News Digital that the goal of these jihadist groups is «eliminating Christian communities,» as they push down from safe havens and Muslims are «given a choice: ‘either join us or you too will face killing and annihilation.’»

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«Christians, of course, are not going to be asked to join,» Fernandez told Fox News Digital.  «Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed.» 

The United Nations migration agency said Monday that attacks by insurgents in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province displaced more than 46,000 people in the span of eight days last month. 

The International Organization for Migration said nearly 60% of those forced from their homes were children. 

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ISIS fighters set fire to Christian villages in Mozambique. (Middle East Media Research Institute)

In a separate report, the U.N.’s humanitarian office said the wave of attacks between July 20 and July 28 across three districts in Cabo Delgado caused the surge in displacements.

While the United Nations references attacks, its reporting has not detailed deaths or specified the targets. At least nine Christians in the Cabo Delgado province were reportedly killed in separate attacks by Islamic insurgents during that timeframe. 

«I’m no fan of the United Nations in general, but I think what they’re doing is kind of the lowest common denominator,» Fernandez told Fox News Digital. «It’s kind of easy to be vague like that. The fact that some of this and some of the worst of it is happening because of a deep anti-Christian animus, hatred of Christians, religiously-based hatred of Christians is something that the UN usually doesn’t like to talk about.» 

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Fighters from Islamic State Mozambique allegedly captured and beheaded six Christians in the village of Natocua in the Ancuabe district of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province on July 22, according to MEMRI.

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Barnabas Aid, an international Christian charity, pointed to reporting by the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium claiming another three Christians were slaughtered in the Chiure district in attacks on July 24 and 25.

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The southern African nation has been fighting an insurgency by Islamic State-affiliated militants in the north for at least eight years. Rwandan soldiers have been deployed to help Mozambique fight them.

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Structures burned in Mozambique ISIS attacks. (Middle East Media Research Institute)

The jihadist groups have been accused of beheading villagers and kidnapping children to be used as laborers or child soldiers. The U.N. estimates that the violence, and the impact of drought and several cyclones in recent years, has led to the displacement of more than 1 million people in northern Mozambique.

Fernandez said that he feels the Trump administration «has refreshingly been tough and strong when it comes to jihadist terrorism» – but what’s happening in Africa typically does not receive as much attention compared to the Middle East. He pointed to how Trump’s intervention in the U.S. brokering a ceasefire deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo helps offset jihadist groups that take advantage of security vacuums and ungoverned spaces to expand control. 

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Fernandez also warned about the threat of jihadist ideology. After the Islamic State was «very strongly defeated» in the Middle East during Trump’s first administration, he said branches are now looking to weaker territories to expand their influence. 

«It’s kind of like a whack-a-mole situation,» Fernandez said, explaining that the Islamic State not long ago controlled a pseudo-state the size of the United Kingdom between Syria and Iraq. «What we need to see is them to be utterly defeated in Africa, so people will say, people on the sidelines or people on defense will say, ‘Well obviously these people did not have the mandate of Allah, the mandate God, they were losers, they lost.’ That’s what we need.» 

Doctors Without Borders said it has launched an emergency response to help thousands of recently displaced people who now live in camps in Chiure district. 

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Vehicles set on fire by ISIS soldiers in Africa. (Middle East Media Research Institute)

Cabo Delgado has large offshore natural gas reserves, and the insurgency caused the suspension of a $20 billion extraction project by French company TotalEnergies in 2021.

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Meanwhile, the Congolese army said last month that attacks in the village of Komanda in the conflict-battered region were carried out by the Allied Democratic Force, which is backed by the Islamic State. The group has mostly targeted villagers in eastern Congo and across the border in Uganda. ADF leaders pledged allegiance in 2019 to the Islamic State and have sought to establish an Islamic caliphate in Uganda.

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El mayor incendio forestal de Francia en décadas arrasó un área más grande que París: los bomberos trabajan día y noche

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El mayor incendio forestal de Francia en décadas seguía ardiendo y propagándose este jueves, aunque a un ritmo más lento, después de haber arrasado ya más de 160 kilómetros cuadrados (62 millas cuadradas) en el sur del país y haberse cobrado una vida, dijeron las autoridades locales.

El incendio, que se inició el martes y arrasó el macizo de Corbières en la región de Aude, no ha sido contenido a pesar del despliegue de más de 2.100 bomberos y varios aviones cisterna.

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Árboles quemados durante el mayor incendio forestal de este verano en Francia, cerca de Durban-Corbières, en el sur de Francia, el miércoles 6 de agosto de 2025. (Foto AP/Hernan Munoz)

La rápida propagación del incendio fue alimentada por semanas de clima cálido y seco, aunque las temperaturas más frías y los vientos más tranquilos durante la noche ayudaron a aliviar levemente la situación.

“La batalla continúa, tenemos un incendio que aún no está bajo control”, dijo el administrador de la región, Christian Pouget, a la emisora BFMTV.

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El mayor incendio forestal de este verano en Francia se está propagando a gran velocidad cerca de Durban-Corbières, en el sur del país, el miércoles 6 de agosto de 2025. (Foto AP/Hernán Muñoz)

El incendio ha arrasado 15 municipios del macizo de las Corbières, destruyendo o dañando al menos 36 viviendas. La evaluación completa de los daños aún está en curso. Una persona falleció en su vivienda y al menos otras 13 resultaron heridas, incluidos 11 bomberos, según las autoridades locales. Tres personas fueron reportadas como desaparecidas, añadió la prefectura de Aude.

Se está llevando a cabo una investigación para determinar la causa del incendio, que ha dejado un paisaje ennegrecido de árboles esqueléticos y cenizas.

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Esta fotografía muestra barcos amarrados en la Plage des Corbières, en Marsella, sur de Francia, el 8 de julio de 2025, con el humo de un incendio forestal al fondo. (Foto de CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP)

Es muy triste pensar en la imagen que daremos de nuestra región de Corbières, con sus paisajes devastados y sus mujeres y hombres desesperados, no solo hoy ni mañana, sino durante las próximas semanas y meses. La reconstrucción llevará años, declaró Xavier de Volontat, alcalde de Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, a BFMTV.

Mientras tanto, se ha pedido a los residentes y turistas de las zonas cercanas que permanezcan en sus hogares a menos que se les indique que deben evacuar. Quienes ya habían huido de las llamas se refugiaron durante la noche en centros de alojamiento temporal en 17 municipios.

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En esta imagen, distribuida por Protección Civil, se muestra un incendio en Corbieres, en el sur de Francia, el 5 de agosto de 2025. (Protección Civil vía AP)

El incendio, que comenzó en el pueblo de Ribaute, es el más importante que ha afrontado Francia desde 1949, según Agnès Pannier-Runacher, ministra francesa de Transición Ecológica.

“La noche fue más fresca, por lo que el incendio se propaga más lentamente, pero sigue siendo el incendio más importante que Francia ha sufrido desde 1949”, declaró a la radio France Info. “Es un incendio claramente consecuencia del cambio climático y la sequía en esta región”.

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La gente observa cerca de la Plage des Corbières, en Marsella, sur de Francia, el 8 de julio de 2025, mientras el humo de un incendio forestal se extiende al fondo. (Foto de Clement MAHOUDEAU / AFP)

El incendio de esta semana fue el más grande desde la creación de una base de datos nacional de incendios en 2006, según el servicio nacional de emergencias.

El sur de Europa ha sufrido múltiples incendios de gran magnitud este verano. Los científicos advierten que el cambio climático está agravando la frecuencia e intensidad del calor y la sequía, lo que aumenta la vulnerabilidad de la región a los incendios forestales. El mes pasado, un incendio forestal que alcanzó el puerto de Marsella, la segunda ciudad más grande de Francia, dejó alrededor de 300 heridos.

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Un bombero lleva una manguera contra incendios durante un incendio forestal cerca de Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, en el sur de Francia, el 7 de agosto de 2025. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor

Europa es el continente que se calienta más rápido del mundo, con temperaturas que aumentan al doble de velocidad que el promedio mundial desde la década de 1980, según el Servicio de Cambio Climático Copernicus de la Unión Europea.

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