{"id":14630,"date":"2026-07-23T13:12:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=14630"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:12:49","slug":"more-than-10000-evacuated-in-southwestern-france-as-wildfire-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=14630","title":{"rendered":"More than 10,000 evacuated in southwestern France as wildfire spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAUMOS, France, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; More than 10,000 people were evacuated \u200covernight in southwestern France \u200cas a rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through 2,000 \u200bhectares of land west of the city of Bordeaux, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wildfires have burnt more land \u200cin Europe \u2060already this year than the annual average in the \u2060past two decades, data shows, as the world&#8217;s fastest-warming continent has \u200bendured three \u200bstifling, virtually \u200bback-to-back heatwaves so \u200cfar this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Five hundred firefighters are battling to control the blaze, the prefecture said, adding that the wildfire was very rough, but that \u200cno one has \u200bbeen injured so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200bwildfire is \u200blocated near the Arcachon \u200cBay area, a tourist \u200bhotspot, and \u200bmany of those evacuated are tourists staying in camping sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u200bby Stephane \u200cMah\u00e9 , Zhifan Liu, Dominique Vidalon; \u200bWriting by Ingrid Melander; Editing \u200bby Alexandra Hudson)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAUMOS, France, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; More than 10,000 people were evacuated \u200covernight in southwestern France \u200cas a rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through 2,000 \u200bhectares of land west of the city of Bordeaux, officials said on Thursday. 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