Bordeaux
France orders 4,000 more evacuated as fires displace a third of a million across southwest Europe
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France | French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters’ fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux. The blaze in the Gironde region has burned an area four times the size of Paris and forced 220,000 people […]
France says monster fire that forced 220,000 people to flee has stopped growing
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France | Fire crews and planes wrestled Monday to bring a monster wildfire under control in southwest France before a forecast jump in temperatures complicates the massive firefighting effort against a blaze that has burned an area four times the size of Paris. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the fire had stopped growing, […]
Wildfires in France drive 250,000 people from their homes and creep toward wine city of Bordeaux
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France | A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight Sunday, bringing the total forced out of their homes to a staggering 220,000 in one region alone, as flames crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Neighboring Spain oversaw its own fire evacuations on the […]