huge blaze<\/a>, which was close to merging with yet another in the neighbouring Castilla y Leon region.<\/p>\nPrime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Saturday the priority in tackling the wildfires was to \u201csave lives\u201d, warning that a \u201ccomplex\u201d fight lay ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur priority, our thinking, our aim is for your lives, to save your lives and protect inhabited areas,\u201d Sanchez told reporters after attending an emergency planning meeting in Cenicientos, a village at the heart of the fire zone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to have some complex hours ahead because although the temperatures have gone down, we do not know exactly how the wind will develop, how strong it will be.\u201d<\/p>\n
In France, authorities on Saturday evacuated thousands of people \u2060from suburbs \u2060near Bordeaux as wildfires in areas around the city showed no \u2060signs of abating.<\/p>\n
Sophie Brocas, who heads the local administration of La Nouvelle-Aquitaine et \u2060de la Gironde, which covers the Bordeaux region, said the areas of Le Haillan, Eysines and Merignac were being cleared out.<\/p>\n
The Bordeaux region is famed for its vineyards and the \u200ccity is one of the main transport hubs for tourists visiting nearby holiday resorts on the Atlantic coast.<\/p>\n
Around 44,000 people fled the upmarket Cap Ferret peninsula south of Bordeaux, with the only road threatened by flames.<\/p>\n
Boats moved hundreds of people away from the fires, while others drove off the peninsula, known for its millionaire residences. More than 50 houses there have been destroyed.<\/p>\n
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said 197,000 people had so far been evacuated from the Gironde and Landes regions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fires which \u2060are hitting our country have reached a level that has never been seen before,\u201d Lecornu wrote on X \u2060on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The French army has also been drafted in \u2060to help, while Macron has asked the European Union for help. He also ordered the army to deploy a military transport aircraft to help with its wildfire suppression operations.<\/p>\n
Around 100 Paris firefighters have also been deployed to help, Arnaud de Cacqueray, commander of the Paris Fire Brigade, told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the wildfires across France have burned nearly 98,000 hectares, describing it as a \u201chistoric record\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are still a number of fires across the country that have not yet been brought under control,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Some European regions have suffered at least two heatwaves since May. And drought blamed on human-fuelled climate change has heightened the threat from wildfires this year, the World Weather Attribution group said in a study published this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 25 Jul 202625 Jul 2026 More than 250,000 people have been forced from their homes and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6445,1397,591,935,819,49,50,640,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-710486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-climate-crisis","tag-environment","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}