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More than 15,000 people evacuated from homes as wildfire spreads in France

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A wildfire near Bordeaux, France, has burned 3,100 hectares (7,660 acres) of forest Most of those evacuated were tourists from campsites around Arcachon Bay in France's Gironde region. A wildfire is ripping through pine forests in the southwest of France, near the tourist hotspot of Arcachon.

Nearly 12,000 people, including tourists staying at campgrounds, have been evacuated. A wildfire spreads near Le Porge in Gironde, France, as firefighters battle flames across the forest and thousands of people are evacuated. Around 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and holiday resorts in southwestern France as a wildfire raged near the popular tourist coastal town of Lege Cap-Ferret.

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