A military transport plane deployed by the French government on Saturday to help fight wildfires carried out its first firefighting mission in the

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has ordered the armed forces to deploy an A400M military transport aircraft to help combat fires raging in the southwest, his office said.

La porte-parole du gouvernement a annoncé ce jeudi que l'Airbus A400M allait être mobilisé "d'ici à fin juillet" pour soutenir les pompiers dans la lutte contre les incendies.