The raging inferno has been blazing for three days just outside of Bordeaux, already destroying 7,400 hectares of woodland and showing no signs of slowing down.
But French authorities have called in the cavalry and received support from across Europe to help fight the blaze, with 361 firefighters, as well as trucks and water-bombing helicopters en route to assist the 1,100 French firefighters already on the ground. Over 1,000 French firefighters are on hand to battle the enormous wildfire which has engulfed the Gironde region in southwest France
Valentine Dupy took photos of her house with her phone before being evacuated from Belin-Beliet, at the heart of the Gironde region “just in case something happens”.Firefighters said they had managed to save her village, transformed into a ghost town after police told residents to evacuate as the flames approached.Before the evacuation, some of the local residents had to save themselves on rooftops as the flames rapidly approached their houses, reports say.