The Latest Breaking News from Gironde

French President Emmanuel Macron visited firefighters battling twin blazes near Bordeaux as Europe counted the cost of a record heatwave, and climate change protesters pointed to the sizzling weather as a wake up call for the continent.

As a heatwave scorches Western Europe, some 38,500 people have been evacuated away from forest fires raging in France’s southwestern Gironde region. No deaths have been reported as of Wednesday, but holidaymakers at campsites near the Dune du Pilat – Europe’s tallest sand dune, perched amid a forest on the…

Access to certain areas is 'forbidden' according to officials with emergency numbers being given out

There’s a ‘very extreme danger’ of more wildfires amid record-breaking temperatures

France’s battle to contain ferocious wildfires in the southwestern Gironde region entered a second week on Tuesday, with more than 19,000 hectares of pine forest already reduced to ashes. While the ecological and economic damage is immense, some conservationists see the fires as an opportunity to adapt Europe’s largest artificial…

Wildfires raged across the Gironde winegrowing area of southwestern France on Tuesday, where a man has been taken into custody suspected of arson, authorities said.

Nearly 25,000 escape blaze sparked by southern European heatwave that has already killed hundreds of people

France was bracing Monday for the peak of the heatwave gripping the country, with crushing temperatures expected from the Mediterranean as far up as Brittany in the northwest. Forecasters have put 15 departments across the country on the highest state of alert for extreme temperatures, including Gironde in the southwest…

Authorities across southern Europe battled on Sunday to control huge wildfires in countries including Spain, Greece and France, with hundreds of deaths blamed on soaring temperatures that scientists say are consistent with climate change.

Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert in parts of Europe.

More than 12,200 people have now been evacuated from their homes in southwest France as firefighters struggle to bring wildfires under control, regional authorities said on Saturday. Close to 10,000 hectares are on fire in the Gironde region.