Wildfire spreads near popular French tourist town as thousands are evacuated

Mongabay
Jul 23, 2026, 1:54 pm70 ptsTrending
PARIS (AP) — 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. Local authorities said the fire in a forest near the town of Lège-Cap Ferret,…

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