France evacuates 4,000 more people as heat threatens wildfire fight across southwestern Europe

LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — 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 to evacuate. ...