More than 12,200 people had been evacuated from France’s Gironde region by Saturday morning
as more than 1,000 firefighters battled to bring the flames under control, regional authorities said in a statement.
In neighbouring Spain, firefighters were battling a series of blazes on Saturday after days of unusually high temperatures which reached up to 45.7 degrees Celsius . “It’s frightening … because you don’t know what’s happening,” said Belgian resident Jean-Marie Vandelanotte, 68. “We have had big fires and we don’t want them to be reactivated again … We will keep extreme vigilance this weekend,” Emergency and Civil Protection Authority Commander Andre Fernandes told reporters.
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