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France wildfires live: Inferno threatens Bordeaux as tourists told ‘stay away’
Firefighters in Gironde are still struggling to bring the blaze under control.
“The weather conditions are favourable, with less wind. But there are still active fires,” Captain Wilfried Schneider of SDIS 33, the Gironde Fire and Rescue Service, told the AFP news agency.
“The most active of these is between Marcheprime and Pierroton” on the outskirts of the Bordeaux metropolitan area, he said.
Live wildfire trackers show the fire is around seven miles from the wine city, which has a population of around 850,000.
The image below, shared on Instagram by SDIS 33, shows the blaze ravaging woodland in Saumos, a village around 25 miles west of Bordeaux, last night.
“Another night of intensive work. Determination intact, total commitment. We’re carrying on,” the fire service wrote in the caption.
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