Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated in southern France with water–bombing planes deployed to battle wildfires after a record–breaking heatwave last month.
Tourists and local residents had to be moved after a wildfire broke out in the town of Sainte–Marie–la–Mer and spread to Canet–en–Roussillon on Thursday.
About half of all the evacuees came from three campsites in the area, where the fire originally started, with dozens of mobile homes destroyed by the blaze.
It then spread to the marina area, where thick, toxic smoke blanketed the boats, while 1,200 firefighters tackled the spreading flames since Wednesday.
‘Weather conditions remain particularly unfavorable,’ Interior Minister Laurent Nunez
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