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Airborne firefighters and hundreds of emergency crew battled to bring the blazes under control in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
France and the Iberian peninsula are struggling to contain wildfires while the UK is bracing itself for temperatures to hit a record 40 degrees Celsius. Climate change has been cited as the cause for the intense heat.
Firefighters in France were battling two ferocious wildfires with nearly 1,400 hectares of forest razed in the south-western Gironde department on the Atlantic coast near Bordeaux.
More than 6,500 people have been moved away from campsites and villages and several roads are closed
Wildfires in SW France force 6,000 campers to evacuate-