wildfires

Thousands escape as wildfires close in The France wildfires tearing through the country’s south-west have forced more than 260,000 people from their homes, with a fresh heatwave threatening to push temperatures to 41C. A mass evacuation of over 4,000 people was ordered from campsites, holiday villages and leisure parks around Lacanau, near the Atlantic coast, […]

2 weeks ago

David Gonzalez who owns a Martial Arts gym for young people try to extinguish a fire outside his house. Image: Getty.

2 weeks ago

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated across France and Spain Local authorities in France have warned that the French wildfires currently threatening the Gironde department “could last for months”. This comes as hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated across France and Spain with the hotel area of Bordeaux being closed due […]

2 weeks ago

Wildfires have torn through parts of Europe Spain has declared a national state of emergency as wildfires cause thousands of people to evacuate in south-west Europe. More than 80,000 people have been forced to evacuate across Spain and France and wildfires continue to burn across Europe. Notably, 60,000 of these fled homes in the Gironde […]

2 weeks ago

Firefighters have been battling the the wildfire Mass evacuations have begun on the Greek island of Crete as a wildfire tears through the popular holiday destination. The wildfire has led to over a thousand people having to be evacuated as the BBC report the “wildfire continues to burn out of control”. The wildfire broke out […]

1 year ago

Dozens evacuated as flames engulf popular Greek island Authorities are evacuating villages on the Greek island of Chios, as wildfires fanned by strong winds continue to spread. 190 firefighters and six aircrafts have been mobilised to try and contain the wildfires in the Peloponnese. Their biggest objective right now is to prevent the flames from […]

1 year ago