Romanian firefighters have completed their first wildfire response mission in France this week, helping local authorities contain a vegetation and forest fire in the Aude department as part of a European civil protection deployment. The operation marks Romania's participation in the EU's wildfire pre-positioning program in France throughout July. According to Romania's General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU), the Romanian wildfire firefighting module was deployed on the night of July 1 to July 2 to assist French authorities in tackling a blaze near the town of Pouzols-Minervois in southern France.