'A recipe for disaster': France's dry southwest struggles to contain wildfire

A fast-moving wildfire is tearing through a tourist-heavy peninsula in France's southwest, near the towering dune du Pilat and Cap Ferret, an area sometimes called the Hamptons of France. According to France 24, thousands of people have been forced to evacuate as firefighters struggle to contain the blaze, which is spreading rapidly through the parched terrain. The network reports the fire took hold on Thursday, with its correspondent in Toulouse pointing to the region's dryness as the reason it's moving so fast.

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