Le Porge, France, July 23, 2026 (AFP) - France evacuates thousands of tourists as fire rages in pine forest

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2026-07-23

More than 10,000 tourists had evacuated camping sites and other holiday accommodation in southwest France on Thursday, as a wildfire fire ravaged a seaside pine forest. The blaze in Le Porge had ripped through 2,000 hectares -- an area about three times the size of Gibraltar -- since Wednesday, officials said. In total almost 12,000 people -- including tourists as well as hundreds of residents from villages surrounding the forest -- had been forc......

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