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French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated from Atlantic coast tourist sites as a massive wildfire west of Bordeaux, already four times the size of Paris, threatened to spread under a returning heat wave. Gironde regional officials issued the precautionary evacuation order Tuesday covering campsites, holiday villages, tourist residences, and leisure parks around the Lacanau […] The post France evacuates thousands as wildfires consume record swaths of southwestern Europe appeared first on American Almanac .
French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated from Atlantic coast tourist sites as a massive wildfire west of Bordeaux, already four times the size of Paris, threatened to spread under a returning heat wave. Gironde regional officials issued the precautionary evacuation order Tuesday covering campsites, holiday villages, tourist residences, and leisure parks around the Lacanau resort area, including Lacanau Ocean and both shores of Lacanau lake. The move came after firefighters held the blaze in check overnight, beating back flare-ups near coastal dunes, but rising temperatures and falling humidity left crews exposed to conditions that could undo days of grueling progress. The Gironde fire has burned 420 square kilometers,…Open
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Historic wildfires in France and Spain have forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes
Firefighters were scrambling to contain blazes that were moving toward major cities. Some 200,000 people have evacuated or sheltered at home.