Photos: Wildfires in France drive 250,000 people from their homes

Wildfires in southwestern France have forced roughly two hundred fifty thousand people from their homes, Al Jazeera English reports. As flames closed in on Bordeaux, another fifty-five thousand residents were evacuated overnight. Bordeaux is a major city on France's Atlantic coast, and the region has been battling a severe fire outbreak.

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