As wildfires blazed on the Cap Ferret peninsula in south-west France in July, some people left by boat. The roads out run through dense pine plantation, the fire had reached them, and the gendarmerie put those without cars onto ferries.
Around 44,000 people fled Cap Ferret, a stretch of oyster villages and holiday homes an hour from Bordeaux. Bordeaux airport was shut. Across France, about 250,000 were moved. Meanwhile, Spain declared a national emergency over wildfires in Madrid and Ávila.
