France orders total evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as wildfire spreads
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Massive wildfires in Spain's Guadalajara region and southern France have burned over 35,000 hectares combined, triggering evacuations of more than 10,000 people and deploying 1,100+ firefighters. The crisis occurs during severe heat and drought conditions, with strong Mistral winds threatening to accelerate the French blazes.
‘Intense and highly unpredictable’ blaze forces more than 40,000 people to flee popular holiday spot
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Authorities in south-western France have ordered the total evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula on the Atlantic coast by land and sea as an “intense and highly unpredictable” wildfire advances on one of the country’s best-known holiday spots.
The fire had burned more than 10,000 hectares (24,700 acres) by Friday morning, the French interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said, with 40,000 people already or about to be evacuated, including thousands of tourists from campsites and rental homes.
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