'A recipe for disaster': France's dry southwest struggles to contain wildfire
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- A wildfire is moving extremely fast through a touristy peninsula close to the dune du Pila and Cap Ferret, dubbed 'the Hamptons of France'.
- Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate as firefighters struggle to contain the blaze.
- FRANCE 24's Christopher Bockman is in Toulouse and explains why the fire is spreading so fast.
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- Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate as firefighters struggle to contain the blaze.
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- A wildfire is moving extremely fast through a touristy peninsula close to the dune du Pila and Cap Ferret, dubbed 'the Hamptons of France'.
- FRANCE 24's Christopher Bockman is in Toulouse and explains why the fire is spreading so fast.