Tourists' French holidays turn to chaos as wildfires displace 220,000

Over 220,000 people displaced from their homes; families separated during evacuations; children traumatized by witnessing uncontrolled flames; some stranded in evacuated areas without clear guidance.

In the deep heat of a European summer, wildfires of extraordinary scale swept through southwest France and central Spain, displacing more than 220,000 people and reducing pine forests to corridors of flame. Families on holiday found themselves waking to military knocks at four in the morning, given fifteen minutes to gather what they could before the roads themselves began to burn. It is a moment that asks an old question anew — how much of the world we have built for leisure and refuge can withstand the forces we have set in motion — and for now, the answer arrives in the form of ash falling

Tourists' French holidays turn to chaos as wildfires displace 220,000

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