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Authorities in south-west France have evacuated around 200,000 people after wildfires ripped through the Gironde and Landes regions.
In the early hours of Saturday 25 July, four towns near Bordeaux were evacuated as a precaution.
“We have never seen a convective fire of this magnitude,” France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told French broadcaster TF1.
Care home staff in Saint-Jean-D’illac spoke to reporters about the upheaval of evacuating vulnerable people, and the need for paramedic help.
