Firefighters tackle a blaze as wildfires rage near Le Las, outside Bordeaux, France, Monday, July 27, 2026. Emma Da Silva/AP
Emma Da Silva/AP
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France — French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters’ fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux.
The new evacuations deepened a wildfire emergency of exceptional scale across southwestern Europe. Fires in France and Spain have
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