300,000 People This Week Bordeaux City Council Is Considering a Total Evacuation of the City, a Spokesperson Told on Sunday

Wildfires in Europe have displaced around 300,000 people this week Wildfires in Europe have displaced around 300,000 people this week Bordeaux City Council is considering a total evacuation of the city, a spokesperson told Sky News on Sunday. The Council is "currently studying scenarios for all possible ways the fire could evolve", they said, which includes a total evacuation of the city, if needed. Surrounding areas have been evacuated as the fire advanced amid high winds.

French interior minister said that the blaze was “extremely virulent and unpredictable again, generating its own wind and spreading erratically toward the Bordeaux metropolitan area” on Saturday night but had calmed “somewhat” overnight. The situation “remains highly unfavourable”, he added. Bordeaux is the sixth largest in France when including both the city proper and surrounding metropolitan area and is home to over 1.2 million people.

One man died in a wildfire in Manises, near the Spanish city of Valencia, the country's interior ministry said. He was found in a car in a ravine hundreds of kilometres away from the severe wildfires near Madrid. Around 300,000 people have been displaced including some 70,000 people evacuated in central Spain.

“The fires which are hitting our country have reached a level that has never been seen before, French prime minister Sebastien Lecornu wrote on X on Saturday. France’s gendarmerie, a branch of the French armed forces, have shared footage of an evacuation of a family from a village near a new fire outbreak. “All state services are fully mobilised to protect the population and property, day and night, it wrote in a post on X alongside the footage.

France’s interior minister Laurent Nunez has provided an update following another “tough night” of wildfires. “The situation remains highly unfavourable, he wrote in a post on X on Sunday. “At the start of the night, in Gironde, the fire became extremely virulent and unpredictable again, generating its own wind and spreading erratically toward the Bordeaux metropolitan area.

“By the end of the night, it had calmed down somewhat.. He said that the burned area now stands at 42,300 hectares of land and that an additional 50,000 people were evacuated. Over 280,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes as wildfires continue to rage across Spain and France. Government officials from both countries have commented on the historic nature of the blaze, with Madrid ’s regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso describing it “the worst fire in the history of the region”.

Lecornu promised that over 1.5 million face masks would be provided as even areas unaffected by the worst of the blaze saw air quality deteriorate and smoke spread. Below we look at the areas affected and evacuated as a result of the wildfires. Bordeaux City Council is exploring options to deal with the various ways the wildfires nearby could evolve, including a total evacuation of the city, a spokesperson told”””””