Wildfire spreads near popular French tourist town as thousands are evacuated
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About 20,000 people have been evacuated from towns and vacation resorts along the French Atlantic coast. A wildfire is raging in a forest near Lège-Cap Ferret, southwest of Bordeaux. Local authorities say the fire has spread over more than 3,100 hectares, but no injuries have been reported.
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PARIS (AP) — More than 10,000 people were evacuated overnight in southwestern France as a wildfire raged Thursday near the coastal town of Lège Cap-Ferret, which is popular with tourists, on the Atlantic Ocean.
PARIS (AP) — About 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and vacation resorts along the French Atlantic coast Thursday as the latest in series of wildfires raged and hundreds of firefighters were dispatched to tackle it.
Reception centres open to thousands of evacuees after blaze begins in pine forest 45km west of Bordeaux Europe live – latest updates More than 20,000 people, including thousands of tourists from campsites and other holiday accommodation, have been evacuated as a “particularly intense” wildfire advan…
A wildfire is ripping through pine forests in the southwest of France, near the tourist hotspot of Arcachon. Nearly 12,000 people, including tourists staying at campgrounds, have been evacuated.
About 20,000 people have been evacuated from towns and vacation resorts along the French Atlantic coast. A wildfire is raging in a forest near Lège-Cap Ferret, southwest of Bordeaux. Local authorities say the fire has spread over more than 3,100 hectares, but no injuries have been reported.
Wildfires forced French authorities to evacuate some 20,000 residents and tourists from an area southwest of Bordeaux, after successive heat waves created tinderbox conditions.
About 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and vacation resorts along the French Atlantic coast Thursday as the latest in a series of wildfires raged and hundreds of firefighters were dispatched to tackle it.
PARIS -- About 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and vacation resorts along the French Atlantic coast Thursday as the latest in a series of wildfires raged and hundreds of firefighters were dispatched to tackle it.
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