More than 100,000 people flee or are locked down as wildfires sweep France and Spain

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‘Highly unpredictable’ blaze forces evacuation of French holiday spot Cap Ferret and Spain declares national emergency

More than 100,000 people have fled or been ordered to lock down as huge wildfires sweep Spain and France, prompting Madrid to declare a national emergency and the French authorities to order the total evacuation, by land and sea, of one of the country’s best-known holiday spots.

Authorities in south-west France ordered the Cap Ferret peninsula on the Atlantic coast to be evacuated “village by village” in the face of an “intense, highly unpredictable” wildfire that has burned through more than 12,500 hectares (30,900 acres) of forest.

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