{"id":713223,"date":"2026-07-27T08:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713223\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:11:10","slug":"wildfire-threatens-bordeaux-as-more-than-300000-forced-to-evacuate-homes-in-france-and-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713223\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire threatens Bordeaux as more than 300,000 forced to evacuate homes in France and Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another heatwave means more wildfires are likely &#8211; EU officialpublished at 08:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smoke rises from a wildfire in Pierroton, Gironde, France\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7bb8506e-dad4-48ed-b7b5-4bd02ef7eea4.jpg.webp\"  width=\"6000\" height=\"3380\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another heatwave in France is set to complicate efforts to tackle the blaze near Bordeaux, with weather forecasts predicting highs of up to 40C this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eric Brocardi, spokesman for the National Firefighters Federation of France says that in order to control the fire, it would need to rain &#8220;heavily for three days&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hadja Lahbib, the EU&#8217;s commissioner for crisis management, warns that more wildfires are likely as the summer goes on, adding: &#8220;Forecasters are predicting, unfortunately, another heatwave so we can expect other wildfires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also tells the BBC that damage from ongoing wildfires in Europe will likely surpass previous records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Last year, one million hectares burned during the summer and so we are expecting to face another historical, sad record because the season has started earlier in the year,&#8221; Lahbib says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another heatwave means more wildfires are likely &#8211; EU officialpublished at 08:55 BST 08:55 BST Image source, Reuters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713223","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=713223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}