France wildfires force evacuation of over 20,000 people from tourist town

Over twenty thousand people have been evacuated from a tourist town west of Bordeaux as wildfires rage in southwestern France. Al Jazeera reports that authorities have deployed about eight hundred firefighters, along with hundreds of soldiers and gendarmes, to battle the flames.

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